The Oklahoma Critic (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 13, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA CRITIC
VOLUME 1
anil at the same time neglect «>ur
home folks and the churches in
this country which are now on the
decrease. •
L)r. H. K. Carroll in the annual
report on the statu- of the t hrist-
ian churches in the l nited States
is well worth your consideration.
_ [He gives the number of church
c.„ . ■ _ verv sK-k I members at 40 mlilions During
man He ta» been ciSed loll* tat
l,„ ted eitee tte Orel ..I Jewury «hipi..crea«d • «.000 whieli *>
SENATOR T. P. GORE
IS SERIOUSLY SICK
Oklahoma’s Blind Senator May
Not Recover From His Sick-
ness—Friends are Worried.
and many W ashington friends
anxious almui his condition, as-
sert that he will never get up. i
This conclusion is forced upon
them, they declare, by the mys-
terious secrecy surrounding his
real condition bv hi- home folks.
Telephone inquiries with his
home concerning his condition in-
variably bring assurances that he
is improving rapidly and will be
out in a short time, but a visit to
the sick senator discloses that he
is not mending half so rapidly as
his friends could wish. In fact, it
is broadly hinted that instead of
improving rapidly he is steadily
declining and that his days ate
numbered.
The senator is suffering trom
plebitis, a disease affecting blood
circulation. Blood clots form in
his veins which obstruct circula-
tion. As a result he has partly
lost use of his limbs. His mind i-
also said to be affected. At times
his conversation is irrational
It is these phases of his illness,
coupled with his gradual physical
deterioration, rather than the
cheering assurances, which come
from his home over the telephone,
which seem to warrant the con-
clusion that he is in much worse
condition than is generally believ-
ed.
.. gain of 204.000 over 1915
Baptist gained 152.000. the
Methodists 136,000; the Presby-
terians and Reformed group
000; the Episcopalians 27.000 and
Lutherans 20,00). The Disciples
of Christ are debeted with a loss
of 185.000, but this is due to an
inaccurate report previously
made.
The Methodists lost 68 chttrch-
,! Where? In this country
OUCH! WURRA! WURRA!
One indescreet member of the
police force at least, has been su-
spended. Orcutt, who a few days
ago captured a car load of booze
and proceeded to sample the
same to know if it was the real ar-
ticle, if indeed it would make him
“feel like a man should feel the
whole year round, ’ and may have
taken a wee-bit too much. How
could Orcutt tell if it was booze
or cold coffee unless he put it to
the proper test? And it seems to
us that he should be commended
for his zaal and energy in getting
the proper “evidence” in shape so
there could be no mistake about
the matter.
BUT this did not seem to be
the way the “bench-legged W ar-
wick,” "who poses as the “chief,
would have the matter done. Had
Orcutt followed the plan, duly
approved by Funk, and Lucas, in
the Townsend et al, case and Toni
Powell, and actually killed the
men hauling the booze, he would
today have been one of the duet-
est of the gang, and would no
doubt now be on the force.
A little thing like killing a man,
as in the case of Townsend et al.
and Tom Powell, all of whom now
stand charged with the crime of
killing, in the district or superior
courts, does not justify Funk or
Lucas to lay them off the force,
but if one takes a drop too much
or samples the evidence too free-
ly, he is at once given his “walk-
ing papers.”
We are reliably informed that
after Powell “killed his man” he
was not only retained as a mem-
ber of the force, and is there yet,
but that he was given an auto-
mobile for his “heroic” work in
this regard.
The people of this county are
not saying much just now but are
watching with much concern the
action of George Reeves, the
county attorney in these cases.
The manifest unconcern of these
men accused o fthe most serious
of all offenses .seems to indicate
that they do not expect to be
prosecuted to any serious extent
They evidently expect to be fully
exonorated of any wrong. If we
are not mistaken in the feeling
and temper of the people of this
county they will stand for no
“monkey business' and George
Reeves will be held to a strict ac-
count as to his conduct in these
cases.
course. They are not losing in
Korea. They will never lose any
m the other side of the pond, so
long as they pay preachers at the
rate of $1,200 a year and furnish
them a palace to live in and give
them a bounty of $100.(10 for each
and child, every year for every
child.
Now suppose we change ‘end
for end” and let our home preach-
ers live on the ecclesiastical Pull-
man for a while, then you’ll see
our home churches increase. The
Baptist lost only 33 churches. We
got off light. Where did we lose
these Antioch- and Bethels: In
this country, of course. \\ e are
not losing naything in China so
long as we can and do raise the
money to house our preachers
there in a mansion with servants.
The Presbyterians lost ninety-
seven churches. I his was tough
on them, wasn’t it 1 hese ninety-
seven church did not expire in
Japan, China or India. They sim-
ply pegged out in this country
and why? The Roman Catholics
gained 199 new churches at the
same time Protestants lost
247. Why? Because the Catho-
lics are not spending $23,000,000
a year on De Luxe Missions in
Korea. The Catholics are con-
centrating their mission work
and this mission money in this
country.
While we are adding yearly to
our number of Chinks, Japs and
Hindoos, who are eager to get our
bounties, the Catholics are put-
ting new churches in every town
in tliis (country where the Pro-
testant churches have DIED
Why neglect our home people and
home churches to look after the
black and tan generation across
the water? Charity begins at
home, while thousands of home
people, our own flesh and blood,
are suffering for the necessaries
of life. Some more next week on
the absurdities of foreign mis-
sions. It is not sanctioned by the
Bible or charity.
-- TULSA. Okl.A.. MARCH IK, 19\7.
DRAFTING WOMEN
FOR MOTHERHOOD
\ verv intere-t.ng and able articl7recently written bv Edith C
the European war, which >- worth your white to read. ■ « »;; >
^'nlaln tbe ^'weM'r’-pagand.-t. inclined '” ‘K‘^pio.Vuotw-ncU
assault on individual freedom, -o >- >he ™^ ^ S
•md of like degree and nature. And in some form or in other, g <-
over bv religion or patriotism, some form of conscrip ion s sure to
over o> re .g i , In rendering legitimate all children
of lnV.r Ml,.,...., ,l,ro..Sh ,r.Wre ,«.»»«-
Well.i,I a, a 't'.'ular function merely flic reco'd .yl'c "O «
fact 0f union, and where regular marriage i- mipo-sihle. the state may
,: f ii-«elf with records of liaison with a pension aihqu.iU t •
°f a ffiTS monogamy is certainly the loftiest and jjj. u.sp.rmg
fr ,n ♦]»,» standpoint of the individual* but us 1 r. J .
out it is bound to crumble before the terrible necessity ot European
s
ness and ardor that men give tin.in e v extent be-
sentimental bases of monogamy must disappear to •• ,
fore the enormous need to reconstruct countries that have already
b“n£Slte3f H^it^nerefly re„ubivc ... now ...»
conceived da’am standards of morality to fit the emergency e he
me^n wlX they live. The loudest protests against the idea of poly-
gamy will not come from the unmarried women, the^mauls and w
■s but from the married, whose trade-unionism ^1^1“I1S.
art?—«£
NUMBER 7
who think it ‘ smart’ ’to call it a
! •’jay" town. Of course, if a man’s
tow ii is not -fiorty enough for
;him he ought to move; whether
: that would help him or not it
would help the town. It is not
the -ports or the sportiness that
makes a town
Most towns are made by the
"jays” who attend strictly to bus-
iness. Edison, who gave the
bright lights to the gay white
THAT CHEROKEE CLAIM
Work in Earnest Now to Collect
the Same.—Active Workers
Now in Charge.
S. M. Croker, Tate Brady and
Chief Rogers are now actively at
work on the claim of the Chero-
kees to recover lands and money
origin iigiii- i» ......i
wav. was a jay and is yet. Come alleged to have been taken by the
to think of it and examine the list, I government and given to their
it will he seen that nearly everv |s|aves and their descendants. An
man in art, science .literature Lnabjjn,. act js now pending be-
production and commerce in alllfore congress and will no doubt
America today either is or has L passed this session of congress,
been a jay. It is a safe rule that | tbe Cherokees are success-
or jay who runs his own business
gets farther along and is worth
inure to any town than the sport
If the ___________
ful in this suit, they will recover
property worth nearly half a mil-
iin<ii. .V ...... .............- ■ , ijion dollars. S. M. Croker and
who tries to run other people s U-ate jjra,fy are |jve wires and if
l.nGnesx. A town is seldom the .1_____ .
business. A town is seldom the
result of virgin nature conditions.
In any event it was man who
I there is a chance and they
|get the active support of
can
the
my event it was man vv u> L f|cro|cecSi they will win, as they
-aw the natural advantages. Many L|IOul«l. in this fight.
good town has been practical > There are other important
made by one man. But lie was a Llainis in favor 0f ,he Cherokee
booster, not a kicker. I he tits )pje which will he determined
process in the improvement of any 1( (he game time 0ne of thesc
town is to convert or get rul ot P a claim against a railroad com-
the people who are knocking it. A L(al)y and hack pav on the right-
town is all a rnncrlnmera- 11 * J * • « ?«» _i
tion of r- r._ . .
are the town inevitable must he.
pie wiiu .tic iMi.-rei..s .. . j pa liy and hack pav on the right-
;, after allla conglomera- Lf-wav, which will amount to al-
people. \\ hat the people mos( $50,000. It will take money
t.Mun moiMt'ihlp miml he I • . . 1 • ri.
AN EXCEPTION
$50,000. It will take money
land work to carry on this fight
and those interested should get
squarely behind this committee,
land assist in every way possible.
We do not want to be under-
stood as saying that ALL the po-
lice officers neglect to do their of-
ficial duties, some of them are
good and efficient officers, only
they are under the control of in-
competent superiors.
Dan Herring, if given a chance
OIL THE TRAIL
In times like these the people
are one; there is no division pos-
ible. Our president is our com-
nander-in-chief and when he
speaks as he did yesterday it is as
commander-in-chief and not as
chief magistrate. When the com-
mander-in-chief speaks, it is
agreed that it shall always be
with authority.
The time for quibbling is past;
pacifism now must give way to
patriotism. W e must dun our ar
mor and be ready for the deadly
grapple if need be, tho we must
use every means still within nur
power to prevent that awful re-
sult.
That we can trust the president
in this matter goes without say-
ing. He was re-elected in one of
the most trying times of our his
tory, after three years of exper-
ience with crises almost as dang-
erous as that in which the nation
stands today. Of bis conduct of
affairs the principle criticism was
that be had leaned, perhaps, too
far toward peace at any price. It
is too much to expect, under the
present circumstances, that he
will use such power as he seeks,
with great discretion. But what-
ever he shall do, what steps he
shall take, will he our steps and
we will support them.
He is our president. Our pres-
ident in times of wax is our su-
preme authority in command of
our armed forces. Let him have
full support until tranquility shall
again reign over our head.
motherhood the digniticci. icspcy.a,, -.....- • n niuch larger
would appeal forcibly ,to ^^"^'^"10 he women who would like
right now than it is generally vv no
H, occupy themselves with rearing children, in
means eager to harbor luisiw. « 1H 1 ' me to believe that there are
The hypocritical whine of the
Noble 100," the loud anil boast-
ful pretention of the “ I ownsend
Squad,’ 'that they were going to
eliminate crime of all kind—make
a clean ! ulsa, has come to naught.
11st as we bail expected, we have
ONLY A YAWP
talking with .good many litc-.iu,.- to
many women cherishing a sec hild- Tq such WOmen, the
play the wife as the price ‘ • fact(,ry since adoption does not con-
adoption of a child is never .. . . • • child These vvo-
fer upon ttem ttot »»pr^ exijnrejreoOi" Amcrica
any serious difference n w * . witim'ite • also that it does not
lone a. they are reamed. Unto a o™'" „„ „,e w;„ ,te
d3»“<l tte Lie will te cupelled » alter (
Si”: eonSiUon,. climate, lemperament. eigen,e nleaa
v.ce, ami nik ,te.r > ■ , cv«n ll.eir lives lo replemslnng the
STSSj re, L,..m ’ami
.I.e.r l,*es m "r [race expediency though men have
always ch.ake.l it with ihe Idea of dWgi.
women in any country were o« ^hen• hv > u whereas it is
way to bring about an adj "t™e"t j^oyed, to recn.it through
possible m case a grea m - writer- are much inclined to lg-
vvomen a depleted race. , n and to assert that the hus-
nore the necessity for race m' /j ’qp f;,ui their salvation after
bandless and childless vvomcn 1 -P women of Europe should
Twelve of Oklahoma’s state sen
ators are joint authors of a bill
now pending in the Oklahoma
Han Herring. «
ami free to act as he should deem fund ^ |)e BUSC(, \n oilinp the
he-t, would bring. about|,f|eH0zark Trail road through the
ent condition in ^ .'7’ . state when the offciial route is
an old hand at the beUows, and ted. The measure is almost
understands the business |certajn of passage. Oklahoma
.Highly. If he h*? \hrS {li‘uca8 could have no greater advertise-
onty or power that Chief Lucas than a road of this charac.
now holds, the city would soon be I
in a condition that would satisfy jjQt onJ wou|d ;t be a great ad-
the niost ardent advocates of Law lerti^ment but it would he one
and Order. , f of the best parts of the Ozark
We do not expect much from ^ The Pwhole people would
the police foree so be benefitted by the oil tax. and
present head holds iht power to lwould add much to the taxable
regulate the conduct or manage- weaith 0f the state and be “a
ment of the w*1® ® thing of beauty and a joy for-
hesi service that Chief Lticw oncver?’ This money could not be
U,“Mireto “esign and allow (expended for a better purpose.
some one in their places who can
and will enforce the law. | ASKS FOR POWER
before. It was a yawp intended
to fetch the boys and they mean
to fetch ’em b’gosh.
But this method deceived no
one, not even the booze sellers. It
seems that the “places" increased
in number after that famous dec-
laration, “The people of this city
did not take these “reformers
seriously. Everybody, even the
niggers and muckle-mouthed
megs of the citv knew it was only
a mouthful of sweetened wind in-
tended to mislead the unsophisti-
cated and unsuspecting.
That kind of “dope” njay go
more
cannot lie re-
materially^they vvdU quickl ?£
fundamental universal than X ^ and on that basis they
Sits" remiwesyfrSly and frfely to the reconstruction of the
race.
COUNTY BRIDGE AT
NEW BANK FOR
SAND SPRINGS
BOOZE JOINTS CLOSED
. The president of the United
States has solemnly advised the
I_________ A-1 i I— L.'re /.reltelnH
The fixtures for the second
bank at Sand Springs ,is being in-
stalled in the new Austin build-
ing at that place. The bank will
probably open for business some-
time next week.
The officers of the new concern
are: Dr. E. M. Yates, president;
C. W. Benedict, vice-president ',
V. S. Vasper, cashier, who togeth-
er with Max Kohn and M. S.
Youkham, constitute the board of
directors. It is capitalized at $25,-
000 with a surplus of $2,500 and
will be known as The Guaranty
State Bank. _ V
The rapid growth of Sand
Springs made it necessary for a
new institution of this kind. The
men behind the bank are all men
of high standing and will no
doubt make this one of the strong
and reliable banks of Tusla coun-
ty.
Considering how hard papa
studied when he was at school,
FOREIGN MISSIONS
A GREAT FAILURE
Every Sunday in almost every
church of this America, an earn-
est and urgent appeal is made,
and pennies are taken from the
raise money ostensibly to send
chubby hands of the habtes. and
the lean hands of the widows to
the gospel to the Chinks. Japs
and low caste Hindoos. The pres-
ent foreign missionary system is
the most stupendous fraud now
extant in the world. It pre-sup-
poses that God can not save the
heathen without the assistance of
a horde o fhigh priced preachers
important enough to get Lew
I North .and the other members ot
. mm enniurc the present board to carry out his
SAND SPRINGS former plans. .
0 i But Si has over estimated him-
* Z . . self in this the board refused to
i The County Commissioners ^ ^ gyren gong and have
! were in session this week and |arranged to place the bridge at
i am0ne other things had under I Sand Springs and commence the
---------------- . v, 'consideration the removal of the ivvork on the other end of the road
That kind of ‘dope may go - bridge from near l ul- s0 as to give a road for the peo-
down with the dudes, and dhdines :old c ty s frin which no j le |lvmp at Fisher and wanting
on the promonade deck, hu when ,sa to J d S ^ it Q cfOSS fhe river at Sand Springs
it comes to the old thoroughbreds doubt win ^ their way to Tulsa.
the smoker, they knew it was shou • the erstwhile board This action of the board will be
ly intended to deceive, and took , - Coun(y ’ Commissioners and approved by a vast majority of
no stock 111 it from the beginning. . ^ u{ the leading the taxpayers of this county. It is
Now if these pretended reform- jthe Albert Pike | just and right, and we hope that
ers. these entsaders, backed ,1 went before this board, the present plans of the board
,hc “Noble 100.” really wanted to highway, went ^ yalu. ^ ^ fu„ consumated in the
do something and carry out their (and g ions” with reference near future, little S. to the con-
plans and spesifications, why trlK-tion Qf the road trarv notwithstanding.
they not make some effort to do,to the eon rdute to ' ._-
so? Why continue to pule an'. .v'evstone He suggested, and .....p y„p piTU
whine like a ^ Jound on pleaded with the commissioners (JUDGE THE CITY
merds intentions by their1 conduct, jm use all the money, now left m
^hVcount'yofficers allowed the 'the rorftajl continue to blast
city authorities plenty of time to jdown .t^. Z west
do this, but when George Reeves , ■ ansas river toward
and his assistants were convinced 1 de of the Arkansas
that they did not intend do ,KWj°^st not forget that this
tHe romd .ha, si .ocated mred
BY THE PEOPLE
The Critic has been calling al- congress that in his opinion ihe
.41 t .hp Tulsa hour has struck when it is neces-
tention to the fact tha the Tulsa ^ he be clothed with fu|i
and" neglecting to enforce the power to cope with any emergen-
Sk 5** SVH remarkable iiow little he
placcsThey te£y IMhc} ' eu.onic powers. know, now >
the places where booze was being
sold and they refused for any rea-
son to close them up, it was a wil-
ful neglect of their official duties,
and they should he held account-
able for it. If on the other hand,
they did NOT know where it was,
then they were wholly unfit for
the place". It was and is their du-
ties to locate these places. This
they failed to do and should be al-
lowed to step down and out and
men should be appointed who can
and will do their duties.
The Critic some time ago called
attention to this state of affairs,
and named some of the places but
they wholly disregarded this in-
formation until last week we pro-
posed to name many other places
in the city where you could get
this ‘‘joy "water” on a moment’s
notice.
This information failed to move
the stubborn and incompetent
police officers, but the county of-
ficers, through George Reeves,
county attorney, in the last few
days have closed up many of these
boze joints. If these places could
he so easily located and in such
numbers, why has this neglect
continued so long? Why vvatt
until the Critic threatened to lay
these facts before the people of
this county?
There are many other places in
the city yet unmolested that con-
tinue in business. We will wait
and see if the county attorney will
get them We are now quite sure
that “Parson” Barton, H. H.
Townsend and that crowd will
not. Our only hope for a strict
cleaning up of Tulsa now is in the
county attorney. He has it in his
power to do so, if he will only fol-
low up the good work so well be-
Editor Purcell, of the Enid
Events, very correctly observes
that any city or town is just ex-
actly what the people who live
t + nn hotter
SAME LOW PRICE $15
SAME HIGH GRADE PURE WOOL FAB-
RICS—SAME EXCELLENT TAILORING
—SAME SAVING NOW AS ALWAYS
We use the same high grade, all wool fabrics that
won for us the reputation of giving better qual-
ity at a lower price. Our linings and findings and
workmanship are of the same high standard of
quality as always. In spite of the greatly in-
creased cost, we will not cheapen the quality of
our fabric or workmanship nor raise the price.
This means we can save you at least $10 on yotti
tailored-to-measure suit or overcoat.
were actually on.tl'c.‘nciea*c’.!,e IHe«^*rnated as part of the Albert jit make it. It is no better
takes a hand and brings resu , • K hwav during the time he !Worse than its average lnhabitan .
and we believe will follow up the ,1 ike g the gtaxpayers Gf lThe best thing in any town is its
good work started and keep this .. and was jntended as broad-mnided, most progressiv
a reasonably dry city. If be should th Charles Page and Sand [citizen, and the worst thing m
fail we shall not hesitate to laY even though it did cost any town is the man who condems
the facts before the voters »nd |?Pn?gS’ " 1 vast more mon-'his own town. Nearly every
gun. ,
He should make an example of
the owners of the buildings in
which these places are run. The
Critic may find it necessary to
publish the names of property
owners who lease their property
for this nefarious business.
taxpayers of this county, that the
they may judge of his conduct. |e.v*
taxnavers a vast more mon- 'his own town. Nearly every
Now" lie imagines that he is town has its home detractors,
Old Grouch says, “A bow-leg-
ged girl has very little chance to
get married in the town where
she was raised.”
All Wool
SUITS
Made to
ORDER
$15
_300 SAMPLES TO SELECT FROM--
FASHION TAILOR SHOP
Over Exchange National Bank
Tailors for Ladies and Gentlemen
WALK UP-STAIRS AND SAVE $10.00
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