Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 265, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 20, 1922 Page: 3 of 6
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OKLAHOMA LEADER
PAGE THREE
SALES TAX IS
PASSED M 10
Other Current Topics of Can-
ada Are Discussed; Farm
Workers Wanted.
OTTAWA, Ont., June 20.— Can-
ada's sales tax has been boosted 50
' per cent. Just what this means to
'the consumer is becoming apparent
to the man in the street. Here is an
; example:
Just a few days ago a package con-
taining 10 popular priced cigarettes
.nicked a fellow's bank roll for 15
.cents, and that was plenty.
. Then the government increased
,the sales tax 50 per cent. That
, should have increased the price of a
package of cigarettes one-quarter of
one cent.
Instead the dealer tacked on 3
; cents, or an increase of 20 per cent.
{The manufacturer and retailer took
2*4 cents on each package, and gave
,the government one-quarter of a
•cent.
Ail Awakening Coniincr.
The general public has been in
pretty much the same position as the
c-Jgarettte smoker. It took a few days
for the significance of the new taxa-
tion to the appreciated, and the full
force will not be felt until the
doubled sales tax has been in effect
for some time, when the perplexed
housewife will realize that it is hard-
er than ever to make the income
1 come anywhere approaching the out-
go.
Parliament has spent the last week
in a futile discussion of the budget,
which Includes the increased sales
tax and other revenue propositions.
In the end the consumer will pay
between $1.50 and $2 for every dollar
that the dominion treasury receives
from the taxation. It is the old, old
story of the government moving
along the Unas of least resistance, as
a result of which the public will
again be taxed in proportion to its
obligations, rather than upon its
ability to pay. The laboring man
with a large family will contribute
more revenue than the bachelor with
a bank roll.
j The debate will drag along for a
few more days, then the vote; and
the cost of living will be boosted
to the accompaniment of a very de-
termined effort on all sides to re-
duce wages.
New Immigration Hill.
A sweeping change on the present
methods of handling immigration is
proposed in a bill introduced in par-
liament by an independent member,
whose measure could apparently be
lined in such a way as to restrict c r
entirely exclude Orientals, although
no direct mention of them is made.
The proposal is that all intending
to emigrate from their native coun-
tries to Canada must first apply for
entrance to the department of immi-
gration. stating country of origin,
age, qualifications, and resources.
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■sssren!
Applications will be dealt with in or-
der and each applicant notified of the
department's decision before leaving
his native country. This notification,
if favorable, will serve more or less
in the nature of a passport and ud-
mlt the holder.
Parliament will consider the bill,
which has the merit of providing a
simple and direct means of restrict-
ing and controlling immigration.
At the present time the govern-
ment Is notifying its officers in other
countries that there is no employ-
meat here for artisans, but lo«s of
i opportunities for farmers, form
I workers, and domestic servants of a
desirable class. The stipulation that
immigrants must have a minimum of
$250 is no longer in effect.
(toTernment Loses Yuluable Men.
j Very regularly, heads of govern-
' ment departments hemoan the fact
| that it is impossible to retain effi-
cient employes. Current news pro-
vides two sidelights that furnish "the
' answer:"
I The Dominion fruit commissioner
j resigned office the other day to be-
come manager of the Niagara fruit
growers' organization at a salary
just double what the people of ( ana-
da were paying him.
And on the same day a report to
the house of commons made known
the fact that over 7,700 employes of
the government are receiving smaller
salaries than $800, while 13,500 are
receiving less than $960.
It seems very probable that the
exodus from the civil service will
continue until the powers that be
realize the fact that inefficiency and
j low salaries go hand in hand. Mean-
J while, private employers will con-
tinue to relieve the dominion of its
| best servants by simply paying the
laborer for his hire, in whole or in J
; part.
"Freedom" Ar IS.
! A Canadian citizen can not offer ,
| himself as a candidate for provincial
or federal legislature and at the same
time remain an employe of the Ca-
nadian National railroad, which is
owned by the people of Canada.
The ruling was laid down In 1920,
on the ground that a C. N. R. em-
ploye was a civil servant, and there-
fore debarred from taking part in I
politics, and it has been enforced in j
I the case of George H. Palmer, la-
bor-fanner member of the Manitoba !
legislature last year, and now a can-1
'lidate for re-election. Railway men I
intend fighting this unfair condition.
.Canadian Newa Briefs*
While the United States railroad !
labor board has reduced laborers' j
pay to from 23 to 35 cents an hour,
the city of Ottawa has decided that I
it is not right to ask civic laborers I
, to work for less than 60 cents. Make j
i your own comment.
i The Ontario provincial government I
I has adopted a bill providing for the
i incorporation of co-operative crtdit
societies, empowered to make small
loans to their memebrs. It is de-
signed to benefit civil servants, em-
ployes or various industries, mcm-
, hers of churches, lodges, etc.
When the Canadian National Rail-
road and the Grand Trunk are con-
solidated into one system (instead of
I maintaining separate entities, as at
present) the Canadian people will
| own the world's largest mileage un-
j der one control.
Excursion rates will not be re-es-
tablished on Canadian railways at
present. The parliamentary railway
committee has killed a proposal to
restore them.
1 More time was lost in industrial
disputes during April than i i the
previous month or April. 1921, ac-
cording to department of labor sta-
tistics. There were in existence •lur-
ing the month 24 disputes involviu
about 17,478 workers with an esti-
mated time loss of 381,135 days.
The Ontario minimum wage bos d
has adopted a scale for woman t« \
I tile workers. It ranges from >7 for
beginners to $11.50 for adults
Members of the Ontario legislature
I have declined to discontinue paying
I themselves a "bonus" of $800 a \ear.
I turning down a proposal to such «f-
I feet. The bonus was origanally
j adopted as an offset to high living
j costs and supplemented the regular
i indemnity (normal salary! of $1,400
a year.
SOCIALISM SPREADS
MILWAUKEE, June 20. "Social-
ism is spreading rapidly in china,"
Hin Wong, of the Canton Advertis-
ing and Press service, told a Mil-
waukee Leader reporter.
"All of the students in southern
China and the professors in Pekin
university are preaching socialism."
he said. "The south part-of China
is rapidly accepting the manners of
the western civilization. In the
northern part the old civilization still
prevails.
"It Is because the professors who
have had an opportunity to study the
ways of the Occident, are liberals and
Socialists, they teach their doctrines
to the students of the university,
which Is a government institution."
Garden and Chickens
Strawberry Culture
By A. g. Colby.
Daily Fashion Hint
SPORTS FROCK
Canton crepe has chosen perl-
Winkle blue iff a fitting shade In
which to develop this frock. Sleeves
and pockets, cross-stitched In iris
■Ilk, are unusual. The frock is s
slipover affair with adjustable
elastic waistband.
The strawberry is more commonly
grown in Illinois than is any other
small fruit. Not only is it one of the
most popular fruits, but It is particu-
larly adapted to the home garden,
furnishing a supply of fresh and
properly ripened fruit for family
use. It thrives in widely different
soil and climatic conditions, and un-
der careful treatment brings good
and quick returns at a comparative-
ly small outlay of time and money.
The purpose of this article is to
bring to the attention of those boys
and girls who are members of a
strawberry club the fundamental
principles underlying successful
strawberry culture.
Selecting the Site for the Patch.
The proper choice of the particular
piece of ground upon which straw-
berries are to be grown Is extreme-
ly important.
Even though the best of care be
given the plot later, the results will
not compensate for the choice of a
site which lacks the requirements
necessary for strawberry culture.
The site should be somewhat ele-
vated from the surrounding areas,
with a gentle slope to provide air
drainage. Some provision should
also be made for water drainage. If
possible, land with an elevation,
however slight, should be chosen,
since cold air settles into low places
and It is also probable that such low
land will be too wet. If the slope
of the land has a southern exposure,
the plants start into growth earlier
In the spring, thus resulting in an
earlier crop, with maximum prices.
However, If late spring frosts are
frequent, safety should not be sacri-
ficed to earllness; and an eastern or
northern slope may be preferable in
order to hold the plants back more
or less until climatic conditions are
more favorable for growth.
Strawberries may be grown upon n
variety of soils. They do best, how-
ever on a soil neither too heavy nor
too light, well prepared, moderately
fertile, well-drained and containing
a good supply of humus. General ex-
perience tends to show that straw-
berries prefer a somewhat acid soil.
The ability of the soil to hold moist-
tire is of first importance. The
strawberry Is shallow-rooted and is
therefore dependent upon a uniform
supply of moisture close at hand for
the production of heavy crops. Much
of this moisture is needed at fruiting
time, when, ordinarily, rains are in-
sufficient to supply the d«mand. The
soil, therefore, should be in a condi-
tion to hold the moisture from earlier
in the season. Decaying organic mat-
ter in the soil Increases its capacity
to retain water; it also helps to lib-
erate hitherto unavailable plant food.
A liberal amount of this humus
should be incorporated in the soil be-
fore the strawberries are planted.
Love Lies Bleeding
A neglected foilage annual coming
into its own again in the amaranthus.
known in its various types as love
liesldeeding, fountain plant. Joseph's
'coat, Prince's feather and other
names.
These plants, which are as readily
grown from seed as pigweeds, of
which they are relatives on an ex-
alted plane, are valuable for their
foliage, which comes in gorgeous
colorings of red. yellow and crimson
with green and gold Intermediate
shadings. It develops only during
the warm days of summer in full
sun.
landscape gardeners have revived
the trlcolored varieties as centers for
formal foliage beds during the last
two years. It Is a very old-fashioned
plant, but so long neglected that the
revival has attracted much iuterest.
Joseph's Coat, which is usually
catalogued as Amaranthus tricolor
splendens. grows three feet tall,
popped with crimson green and gold
leaves which are very striking and
brilliant
| Many of the varieties tire crimson
in leaf and stem. Ix ve Lies Bleed-
ing, Amaranthus Canratus, has light
green rosy veined foliage and from
! the ends of the branches hang tas-
sels of red often reaching a length
!of two feet.
j The fountain plants are something
ion the same type of growth, but of
amaranthu?
Clove - lies - bleeding)
sive for the average poultryman, so
it is of the latter method we shall
treat.
Water glass (soluble silicate of
sodium) Is a pale-yellow, odorless,
syrupy liquid which is obtainable at
any drug store, and costs from 75
cents to $1 per gallon. It is com-
paratively cheap, as one gallon will
make ten or eleven gallons of pre-
serving fluid. The water should be
boiled, then allowed to cool. Stir in
I part water glass, by measure, to
10 parts of the boiled water. It is
better to mix the fluid in the same
receptacle in which the eggs are to
be presedved. as in pouring from
one to another a different percentage
the water glass Is liable to result.
Any clean, water-tight wood, glass or
earthen receptacle is suitable, al-
though stone earthenware is prefer-
able. He sure the jar Is perfectly
clean. Do not use metal receptables.
Into this fluid place the eggs, small
ends down. Be sure only absolutely
fresh, sound, unwashed eggs are
used. Eggs laid In April and May
are best for preserving. It Is a good
plan to keep the April, May and
June eggs separate, using the June
j eggs first and April eggs last as
they keep better than May or June
eggs Any eggs that float in the
liquid should be discarded. See that
at least two inches of the liquid Is
above the egg's, and place the recep-
tacle where the sun will not reach
them, preferably In a good cellar,
covering with loose boards. Add
water occasionally If evaporation
lowers the fluid, but do not stir tho
fluid.
IJme Water Mixture.
This Is another preservative meth-
od which is both cheap and reliable.
Slake three pounds of good live
quicklime In a small amount of wa-
ter. then add to this three gallons
of water. Keep the mixture wel
stirred for a day, then allow
lime to settle and use only the clea
liquid.
Breeding Flock Increases Poultry
Production.
The practice of allowing males ti
run with the entire poultry flock am
selecting eggs for hatching by ap
pearance alone may be comnired t«
the obsolete crib method of . electin.-
seed corn. The latter practico ha,
been discarded by all progressiv.
farmers with marked benefit to th
quality of corn cown, and one o
the biggest steps that can be takei
toward improving Ine poultry Mock
! either for egg production or fo* un:
I form shape and color, is to alundoi
the practice of mass mating an«
i establish a breeding flock. If th
' best hens are separated lrom th
rest of the flock and mated to th-
best male that can be secured. ih<
improvement in tho young siock wll
be very noticeable. It is much bet
ter to spend the nicney allotted fo
the purchase of mnles in buying on*
exceptionally good male and estab
llshing a breeding flock Instead o
spending th•• sam< amount for tcl
ordinary < ;,i >■ to mate the emirl
flock.
'l'li.' place used for setting hrnl
be rat proof, di > and < n t hi
ground floor, so .is to lis convenient
Of course any place that Is dry an|
rat proof, such as a loft will do.
I'nder the regulations as set dowj
by the U. S. Bureau of Interna^
Revenue, every cigar manufacture
m the country is privileged m jrivl
each clgarmaker three cigars a dajf
all of which are tax-free.
The port of New York has a waterl
front of 771 miles.
JUST KIDS—Wanted—A Dentist.
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more delicate texture. They are cata-
logued as Amaranthus sallcifolius,
meaning willow leaved.
These amaranthuses will furnish a
surprise and entertainment by their
curious growth and ornamental col-
oring.
POULTRY NOTES
It has been said that hanging an
empty banana stock In the hen house
will drive away mites.
The old methods of preserving eggs
by packing them in salt, bran or oats
have been practically discontinued,
as the eggs lose much of their mois-
ture, and. while they "keep", they
become stale. Covering them with
lard, paraffin, etc., is also unsatis-
factory. The cold-storage method,
where a temperature of 34 degrees
F., can be maintained, and what is
known as the
Water (ilnsN Method
are the only two ways that are satis-
factory. The former is too expen-
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Bible Information Points Out Sources of Petroleum
On the Nile, Near Heliopolis — Hints from Father
Noah, Who Used Asphalt for Calking the Ark.
By RE-VL BACHE
■ HO could have imagined that
M M I Americans boring for oil In
&VLI the year 1922 would be led by
Information gained from a
woman who lived nearly forty cen-
turies ago? And that woman the
mother of Moses!
The Bible sayg that she made "an
ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with
pitch, and put the child therein; and
■he laid it In the flags by the river's
brink."
But there were in that region no
trees productive of pitch, and it Is
believed that the Hebrew word thus
translated must have meant asphalt.
The latter is a petroleum product, and
hence the thought that there may be
oil In the immediate neighborhood of
the ancient city of Heliopolis, which
was tIne scene of the embarkation of
the infant Moses In a tiny boat made
of papyrus reeds and of his rescue by
an Egyptian princess, daughter of the
Pharaoh.
It Is there that the Americans, on
the strength of the hint obtained
from Moses' mother, are now boring
for petroleum.
The historian Pliny, by the way,
speaks of the Egyptians as "weaving"
boats of papyrus: nnd other ancient
writers say that Nile wherries made of
papyrus were remarkable for their
swiftness.
Home Of Tho Stin God
Heliopolis, where Moses was borrTTn
the year 1738, B. C., Is called "Un" In
the Ulfcle. It was located five miles
east of the Nile, near the point where
the great river splits up into the
streams of its delta, and (as might be
Inferred from Ita name, which means
City of the Sun), It was the principal
seat of sun-worship In Egypt.
Although the city no longer exists,
remains of the lofty brick walls that
surroumled It are still to be seen;
and It wm In Heliopolis that the fa-
mous obelisk now set up In Central
Park, New York, originally stood.
That obelisk was doubtless an object
familiar to the eye of Moses, who after
his adoption by the Egyptian princess,
was educated at Heliopolis. It stood
there for many centuries before he
was born, having been erected by
I Tethmosis III, one of the great archi-
tectural Pharaohs, who built In large
part the wonderful temple at Karnak.
The aun was the royal god, and
alleged to be the ancestor of all the
Pharaohs. Heliopolis had many mag-
nificent temples, schools of philosophy
J and astronomy, and great libraries.
To each temple was attached a staff
of professional scribes whose business
was the writing and copying of books
on papyrus scrolls. The collections
Included histories, medical works,
popular novsls, and even humorous
muff; but most Important were the
o-called "books of Thoth," a com-
plete encyclopedia of science and re-
ligion, upon which muoh of the
am ient Egyptian literature was baaed.
The fart that this was the blrth-
i place oX Moses lvnd* much additional
tKTTZTsP - Cr&/Z>
cess- tzt*-
Interest to everything relating to that ! to that monarch, and said that he
city of the sun-god. It was there | would be a destroyer of Egyptians—
that a flock of sacred crocodiles was which, If the "wise men" really had
kept monstrous lizards thirty feet lny powfr to tmeaMt event„ ralght
long, which were fed by priests pe j conceivably be held to refer to the
clally appointed to care for them, and doBtru(,tlon of Pharaohs pursum*
(a. w. learn from early historians) army bv th> w„,„r„ of th„ R(.a
hung with golden chains and oth.r , ifter ,he had over 1U1
ornaments. dry bottom.
Fable Of The Phoenix The prediction, however, seems to
it was to Heliopolis that the fabled have had nothing to do with the edict
Phoenix, once In every BOO years, by which Pharaoh commanded that
winged Its way from a mysterious all male Infants born to the Israelites
home in Asia somewhere Having should be drowned In the Nile. Ac-
fed on nothing but air for that length cording to the Bcrlptures. that ukase
of time, it would arrive at the ap- issued because the Jewish people
pointed date, enter the principal tem- 'n Egypt were multiplying so fast
pie, and be burned to ashes on the that the monarch feared they would
—--- - ■-? :
or profane, has explained why or how
:t happened that the people of Israel,
some hundreds of thousands of them,
were !n Egypt at the period of which
the Bible speaka. According to sacred
legend, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
who were of Mesopotamian origin
(Abraham came from Ur, In Baby-
lonia>, dwelt In the country went of | there was in hi
depression in servitude that Moses, obliged to look out through the roof
tho man destined to accomplish their to see If the rain bad stopped—foi-
deliveranre, was born at Heliopolis. lowed certain specifications given to
We have the authority of sacred him by Jehovah, who said to him.
legend for the statement not only that "Make thee an Ark of gopher wood.
Moses was divinely Inspired, but that and Pitch it within and without with
the Jordan, In Palestine, and In the
third generation the family emigrated
to Egypt, where Joseph (himself a
great-grandson of Abraham), had al-
ready become a great and powerful
man.
We have record, then, of a family
going to Egypt. But, four hundred
and fifty years later, the Israelite*, a
numerous people, departed from tha*
country under the leadership of Moses.
It Is rather a pussle. Presumably
however, the explanation is that thru-
people were wax; captives and th"
descendants of war captives. In thos"
times It was the custom to expatriate
the Inhabitants of a conquered coun-
try—1. e., to carry them off In multi-
tudes as slaves. Thus the Inhabitant"
of Jerusalem were carried off to Baby-
lon at a much later period, and forced
to work at building the gigantic brick
certain element j
again we have
'pitch.**
H. w„. in a word, a incarnation of | ^ ™ ^
... ! yielded pitch. What Noah presum-
It Is really surprising how many ably used for calking his craft was
people there are who never heard of asphalt, which, we positively know,
yet the Bible makes consplcu- has been employed In that part of the
entlon of him, saying that he j world for making boats and houses
o third hoii of Adam and Eve. waterproof ever since Abraham's time,
s born (according to the Scrip-I Asphalt Is that part of petroleum
hronologlsts) in the year 4042. ' which has lost its volatile products,
'aklng the place of the mur- | Petroleum seeps up to the surface of
ground, Its volatile elements
of the supernatural, Inasmuch as the I TT ,
soul of Seth had passed Into his body, tran,,ated «
Seth.
dered Abel. Tradition says that
invented Hebrew lettters and named
altar. The next day It would appear «°on outnumber the Egyptians.
as a young bird already fledged, and It was to save her baby from thi
on the third day. its pinions full- f**e that the mother of Moses, after structures of that city. The Bible
grown, it would salute the hlgh-prlest hiding him for three months, set hlrr. that the Israelites in Egypt wore
and fly away. The Phoenix was a *float on the Nile In a papyrus bee- compelled to perform Just that kind ^om father t
symbol of the sun. calked with "pitch," or asphalt. Th* labor, nnd that on one occasion Memuseiah. wh
Moses was of the tribe of Levi princess who rescued him was name<l they rebelled, beoauee they were re
Much Information about him that le Thermouthls, and monumental rec- Qulr«d to make bricks (of the sun-
not given in the Bible la found In the ' orfls appear to indicate that her fath- dried «ort, such aa we call "adobe")
works of Josephus and other old-time er was Besostris Barnes*^ the famous I without straw for a binder.
historians. Hence it Is learned that builder of the nineteenth dynasty. ' That seerns to have been the condl-
hls mother was named Joohabed, and After his death and that of her broth- tlon of the "chosen people" at th
his father Amram; that his brother
Aaron was three years older than he,
and his sister Miriam a half-growii
girl at the time of his birth.
Josephus says that the magicians of
Pharaoh foretold the birth of Muae«
time of which the sacred writings Delug
she herself ascendsd the thron*
to he In turn succeeded by Bathos II, j speak. Theirs wes forced, unpsld
who was probably the Pharaoh of tb« | labor; and that they were oppremed
Exodus. i cruelly might go without saying.
The .Tews In Egypt , Ttie Anted Harlan Patriarchs
No historical a.ocount, cither sabred J It was at the time ot their, deepsst j Inasmuch
; es- ape. and oxidation of what remains
j produces what w call asphalt. We
' pave our streets with It.
Region Rich In Oil
All of the region about the eastern
i end of thi Mediterranean Is rich In
mineral oil. In Syria Is fouod a "self-
burning" limestone* which when net
aflre actually burns Itself to llnie. so
much petroleum does It contain.
All around the Dead Sea, In the
valley of the Jordan R'ver, asphalt
has been familiarly known since the
earliest Biblical times. Big chunks
of It are frequently east ashore by the
Vrom"sMh. .n" Noah? hU I W,aV*l Jhs oil-hunters are busy thers
Wan el«rh h al80' borln* for the precloua fluid.
So here we find Bible history com-
ing Into line with modern discovery
In a most Interesting way—the story
of petroleum originating In the Scrip-
Father Noah, In building the Ark— I tures, with Mob*s and Noah figuring
which, as the Bible tells us, had three In It conspicuously. It Is surely true.
but presumably no windows a* King Solomon once remarked, that
the navigator was . "there is nothing new ynder the sun,**
Feth was the ancestor of all the
antediluvian patriarchs, whose names,
with the length of the life of each
one, the Bible gives, as follows: Beth,
912 years; Enos, 905; Calnan, 913,
Mnhalaleel, 896; Jared, 962: Enoch.
8 68; Methuselah. 969; Lamech, 777;
Noah. 950.
The^ above represent a direct line |
and so on. Thus |
Ived longer than
any other of the antediluvians—the
patriarchs, that Is to say. who came
before the Deluge—was sixth
descent
grandson
Methuselah died one month before
Xosh And The Ark
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