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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
Features
OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every day except Sunday by The Oklahoma Leader Co.
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Oscar Ameringer I Associate Editors
Dan {logan I
John Hagel Business Manager
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at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3. 1871).
WHY NOT DESTROY THE WAR GERM?
The proposition of Mr. Secretary Hughes that the powers
abandon the construction of battleships lor ten years, that all
capital ship building plans be stopped, that certain ships be
scrapped, is, upon first appearance, and at first thought, a
fine beginning in the general direction sought by the Disarm-
ament Conference.
In money salvage the gain would be notable. It would
save Great Britain $400,847,940; the United States, $425,848,-
078, and Japan $248,519,224 in money which is to be used for
naval construction for the years of 1921-22, a total by these
three nations of much more than a billion dollars. I-'or the
United States it would be doubly profitable for it would not
•only save us a half a billion, but it would enable Great Britain
to pay us a half a billion on her past due interest account, a
clear gain of a billion to us.
But to arrest the construction of battleships is but a faint
start in the direction of disarmament. Aside from the saving
of money it presents little significance. For as war machines,
battleships, if not now, are soon to be obsolete. This has been
proven. A fleet of airplanes dropping bombs from an altitude
so great as to be reasonably safe from enemy bullets, could
destroy every one embraced in Mr. Hughes' proposition in the
space of an hour—send every one of them—useless junk, to
the bottom.
To talk of discarding battleships as a real measure of
disarmament is like competing master printers agreeing that
hereafter but 25 per cent of type shall be set by hand, or com-
peting railroads agreeing that locomotives of the 1500 class
shall not be used. Such agreements would mean very little,
inasmuch as the 1500 class locomotives are going out of use
and more than 75 per cent of all type is set by machines
already.
If the disarmament conferees actually and really mean
business—if they intend their labors shall bear the blessed
fruit the nations would delight to taste—they will carry their
limitations, not only to the construction of battleships, but
to battle planes and poison gas, for these are the weapons
which will be employed in the next war.
Nor can we believe it is possible to arrest the work of
the chemist in his secret laboratory. However nations may
contrive to agree, it will be, and it is now impossible to curtail
or limit the field of thought and chemical investigation. These
students and discoverers in every nation will go on, in spite
of God and governments, devising methods for human slaugh-
ter, and when war comes, notwithstanding promises in good
faith made, the nations will not hesitate to employ them.
The next war will consist in the covering of the surface
of the continent attacked with such poison that every living
thing that breathes it will die. It will respect neither age nor
sex, neither man nor beast. It will mean extermination for
all alike. Civilization will not, cannot survive a catastrophe
like it.
Salvation can come in one way, and in one way only.
The cause of war must be removed. That consists merely and
simply in the abolition of exploitation of men by men—in the
establishment of Industrial Democracy wherein the world of
producers shall be permitted to consume all they produce, and
where, consequently, there shall be no surplus stores to mar
ket, no conflicting commercial interests, no foreign trade en-
tanglements, no international rivalries, no reason or use for
batleships, standing armies or poison gas.
In combating smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus,
hog cholera, murrain and blind staggers, we seek the bug-
the germ—the first cause, and when we have found it, we
wisely remove it.
Cut out the camouflage
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"Produce more," say the profiteers. That's exactly what
the farmers did and the price of corn, wheat and livestock are
just right—for the profiteers.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
FIGHTING THE
WAR-MAKERS
St. IiOUis Labor.
Sir William Pope tells us that
hereafter all wars will be won by
the use of gas. That, of course,
means that the workers of the world
will continue to sacrifice themselves
to the interests of their rulers.
Meantime it seems to be the plain
duty of every wide-awake, fair-
minded, really civilized person to j
oppose the insidious policies of the
war makers, to arouse the common
people everywhere, and to mobilize
their intellectual and moral forces
for the fight against every war-pro-
ducing factor In society.
This is not an academic question,
thin is not a theoretical problem, this
is a matter of tremendous practical
importance. The wealth of the
nations, the welfare of society, the
future of the human race and the
lives of millions of men and women
are at stake.
Let us profit by the horrible les-
sons of the last 10 years. Let us as-
sert our right of self-determination,
and prevent the powers that be to
gamble our lives away. #
Let us ♦-^nslat'e the lofty ethical
Ideals of civilization into real facts
of practical life, and treat others as
we wish to he treated by them.
Let us live the religious belief we
have been taught to profess and do
away with the barbarous maxim of
might makes right.
Let us insist upon a general recog-
nition of our Inalienable rights of
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap-
piness. and put an end to every In-
stitution that tends to abridge or de-
stroy these rights.
Let us do away with autocracy in
every shape and form, veiled or j
naked, and make the masses of the j
useful people the masters of their
destinies.
Let us wage wdr against war, j
crush militarism. annihilate it. '
starve it to death, and put a stop to
all preparations for war.
The fate of civilization rests in our ^
hands. The future of mankind de- J
pends on our thoughts and actions, j
Today we are called upon to decide
whether we shall permit wholesale
massacres in the future, the destruc-
tion of cities, the devastation of 1
countries.
It is our right to safeguard our in-
terests and our lives. It is our duty
to prevent other international catas
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright, 1921, The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
BILL AND THE CRITICS
WHAT IS THERE TO CONCEAL?
By Judson King.
H. G. Wells, world famous author of "The Outline of His-
tory," and every other great thinker in England who knows
the evils of secret diplomacy, is demanding "open" sessions of
the disarmament conference.
William Allen White, and like great American writers and
thinkers are doing the same thing. Why? It is because these
men know from all history and from the Paris treaty in par-
ticular that "secret treaties" and inside deals lie back of every
war—the great world war especially.
Mr. White in a recent article boldly proclaimed that if
this Washington conference is held behind closed doors it will
amount to worse than nothing; that "America's one chance"
is in daylight publicity. He says:
"The destiny of every American and his childreji and
grandchildren is bound up in the outcome of this conference.
His taxes, his food, his standards of living, his life itself is
to be determined. What right have any four American com
missioners, however wise they may be * * * to sit in such .•
council behind closed doors with the gamblers of Europe and
hazard our destiny?"
The people have rights in this conference. They ought
to wake up and make their will known. The issue of closed
• r open doors will be decided by the conference itself. Get busy,
x Tite to those in authority. The question of the hour is "Gen-
- tlemen. what is there to conceal from the plain people of the {
world?"
Those desiring to read Mr. White's remarkable article. "Will Thej
Fool Us Twice?" which shows Just why secret sessions arc futile and
dangerous, can get it free by writing to Judson Kins. Executive Secretary.
,N' U| ual Popular Government League, 637 Alunsey Bldg., Washington. D;0.
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TODAY
ARTHUR BRISBANE
An Afternoon Hanging.
'•'rank LigreKni, walking in th*'
corriuu. of Chicago's jail, made a
desperate attempt to escape, tr ing J
to strangle a prison guard. Other
guards hurried him to his cell.
The unusual attempt of a con-
demned man to escape is not the in-
teresting thing about Llgregni.
They are going to hang him for
wife murder, and that isn't the in-
teresting thing, either.
It's the fact that, first time In the
history of hanging, they are going
to hang him In tbe afternoon in-
1 stead of at daybreak.
This murderer is to be saved for
afternoon hanging, "so that all crlin-
ials and murderers in the prison
may be awake, know what is hap-
pening, and realize that crime
doesn't pay." *
They will howl, yell sttid hoot, ;
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[ MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
Adcle Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife |
Cfcvrrlctit, ltai. by tmtan hnto. I*.
Iiimmi mi
How 'ladire Summoned Help at l ast! shelter of the woods, where I would
I do no, think I ever have faced to «l«nd upright. And then *
sudden thought sent me back again,'
a quandary so puzzling as Uic on* (Q ,he wounded tr„0per's side. 1 re-:
which confronted me when I had moved gently but rapidly the blanket!
finished washing the blood from the and coat I had wrapped around him.j
face of the wounded young state scanned his belt for the heavy serv-
trooper. ice revolver with which I knew offi-
Even my limited knowledge told cers like htm were equipped. It was
me that a surgeon's aid was im- not there, but even as a sob oi dla-
perative, 1 had done all that any appointment tone from my throat, C
one save a professional could do, and noticed a protuberance in his blouse,
I could do no good by remaining at and, tearing it open, took out the
side. ; gun, wrapped in a heavy cloth.
Vet I hated to leave him alone "Klifht Here."
land apparently dying in that lonely No time to wonder now how it ha<!
1 place. Suppose he regained con- come there, or why it had been over-
sciousness, wished to send soin« lodked by the man who struck him
message, or suppose some prowling down. I seized it. broke it, saw
beast -harmless enough of he were that it was fully loaded, and, with
helpless
the ground
some of them perhaps will tremble i,ruin ran the gamut of the horrible
as the murderer i choked to death possibilities my 'absence might make
by majestic government. realities.
The jail keeper should know that Besides I never have counted
and
criminals
f their minds
myself more i
women -but
a coward than most tremor,
confess (hat I was I tion in
u little wave of thankfulness for the
lew lessons in the use of firearms t
had been gi\eu. I pointed the heavy
gun into the air and fired twice.
Then, trembling with nervous
y face toward the direc-
ft'hich his assailant had
were awake they would know that deathly so. to make the jour-1 crawled away, my nerves quivering
shedding of blood makes men ney >vhich I realized I must take to for the first sound which should in-
bloodthirsty and Ihe taking of life the apnl ln the ruad where 1 had left dleate that my shots had been heard,
makes men indifferent to taking j ,.ar—lucklily I had a key to it in For a second or two there was butt
life. j my pocket and from thence to j the echo of the shots, crashing away
To stimulate crime and increase KOme house where I could get hold into the mountains, and then 1 heard
murder let the state, which should | a telephone and summon a sur- a faint: "He-ll-o!
set a good example, haug a ;nan late (nm It was repeated at intervals oi!
in the afternoon and make of it a 1 j reflected anxiously that we had half a minute, ami soon I heard tha
show, not a warning. 1 ronle by so devious a way I had nil snapping sticks, then tbe sound oC
idea which way to drive the car running footsteps, and the excited
New House of l.onK when f should reach it, and the hour voices of I "a Coigrove and Fred.
In Germany a new House of [ was nearly midnight. There would "Mrs. Graham! led. Mrs. |'1 a-
Lords appears bused on a money be but little chance of meeting an- ham! 'led! they were 'ailing
i governement. I other motor car, even if I safely at- I tensely, excitedly, and 1 raalUed that!
j Twelve .hundred of the richest .ompllshed the trip through the they supposed Ted to be with me.
! Industrialists say to their country, woods path which I must take
["We'll help you pay your debt; you
1 can have a thousand million gold
marks now; but you must run the
j country 'OUR' way. Our way means
turn the railroads over to us; no
government ownership. It means
and guessed thai they would never
fore reaching the place where we have wandered so far away if they
had left our machine.
(Julck Thinking.
A glance at the
unconscious boy
steeled my courage with th
hlte face ol the
ground
had not counted upon his protecting
.re of me.
"Here I am! Oh. please coma
quickly!" At the nearness of help
_ thought I the fictilious bravery and strcngtli
abolish the eight-hour day. It means .of the possible horrors which might I had felt began to ooze out of my.
run the country as we think It! come to my own lad when he should | llnger-lips.
and protec- j "Right here." The running foot-
I steps rounded Ihe bend in the shore.
When William J. Shakespeare went up to his flat
Climbed into his cotton pajamas,
And turned out the plays that have earned him his bays
As the top-notch composer of dramas,
He never observed, "I care nothing for pelf
Let 'em fill up the show-shop on passes,
1 don't want a sou for the stuff that I do
1 am writing to uplift the masses!"
Bill wasn't that sort of a playwright at all.
He wrote for the coin that was in it.
He knew what was due on his royalties, too,
And collected them up to the minute.
And when a play dragged and the house was half sold,
lie put in new lines and more action,
Enlivened the scenes and employed every means
To make it a paying attraction.
The critics said Bill was too eager to please,
They called him a gain-glutted vulture,
They said that he might—if he wanted to—write
For people of breeding and culture.
The stuff he turned out, so they freely declared.
Though perhaps for the day it succeeded,
Was palpably meant for the tired business gent
And was certain to perish when he did.
Yet William, although he cared nothing for fame,
And wrote to the taste of the masses,
Turned out a few plays that in these cultured days
Are read by our highbrowest classes.
Though three hundred years have gone by since he died,
The fame that he gained is unshaken,
Which all goes to show what a few of us know,
That critics are sometimes mistaken.
Graham!" tho
"What is it? Art*
should be run." I have outgrown my
The radical papers howl, but | tion. J
howling does not produce a thou- j Yet so great was my terror of the and Fa ' osgroveand I red rushed ui
sand million gold marks. lurking menace between me and the ; to me, stopped in amazement at tho
House of Lords | state road that for a minute I liesU sight of the wounded trooper.
Radical-; tated, waited, straining my ears to 'Good God! Mrs.
| hear if there were one sound to in- elder man gasped.
1 dicate the proximity of the rest of i you hurt?"
] the fishing party. Dicky. Bess Dean, i "No. I'm all right," I said faintly.
' osgrovc and the twins they i fighting to keep my composure and
transplanted to my strength. '"But If you'll just tako
some other sphere for any indication this gun."
1 had of their nearness. | I held the thing out gingerly, for I
Tf I only had a revolver! It would hate the sight or touch of a revol-
not only be a protection against the ver. even though I can use one in ai
possible return of the desperado who j emergency.
had so lately crawled away into the Pa ( osgrove took it. and then knelt
woods, but a shot would also be a down by the wounded trooper while I
rest, told him as quickly as possible what
I had not dared to scream for fear had happened. As i> talked he exam-
the man who had threatened me ined with practiced fingers the band-
might return. But a pistol shot was | age I had put on. and I saw him noil
different. It would alarm him as
much as it would my friends.
But I had no revolver, and with a
clinching of my teeth I started to
crawl up the path that led to the
The new money
CAN produce the money.
ism can't.
"liiie ller the Air."
No scenario writer equals reality !
in the bandit world. Consider the m K .,a\f
hold-up on the lllionis Central; •
one bandit with his gun against the j
engineer's head. The engineer ]
gives the air. putting on airbrakes. |
"Stop the engine just the other I
side of the bridge, with the pasen-
ger cars on the trestle end the mall " (o pa ro,grov(, aml thp
cars where we can get at them.
That is done—in fear of death.
A Pullman porter looks out and
drops dead. The bandits shoot
well. Mali clerks refuse to open
doors. "Stench bombs," used for
the first time in banditry, are
dropped through the ventilators.
The clerks must open the doors or TO THE II\I.F WlXlOJf.
smother. They are opened and the By K yt Rarron
clerks are beaten almost to death. ; (Apologies to John McCrae,
TWO bandits open mall bags while s lllow
•ontinuously exchange „ , • * ,
in approval of it. And when I had
finished he said decisively:
"We've got to get him out of here
right away. Have you seen anything
of your husband lately?"
'Why Do We Say'
other bandits continuously exchange (he benchp!t row 0„ row
shots with passengers. An a°l°j, Tbat mark our place; and in the know.
street
mobile roars away in the dark,
it's over for that time.
The sparrow
feet.
That seem to mock us as they go.
( b ina's Sad Plight.
Unfortunate China, in need of- pro-
tection from Japan as a fat goc*e
needs protection from a weasel.
stands in sorry plight at Washing-
ton. Slie has failed to pay money
borrowed from the Continental and
( ommercial Chicago bank to carry
ou her government. The money was i Wjjeij
not lent for the sake of profit, but know
because the government of this H<,re ,f (]je (hrc
country at the time advocated and | ,uoet-
approved the loan, wishing to help Jf you br(,ak (ajlh
manufacurers and exporters, by en- ^ ^ ^
abling China to buy. „rnw
Sad is the plight of a nation as big
NOTHING PERSONAL
w lo„uv ivrm. Some men who get exemption .for their wives ought to be jas china unable to raise and pay five
tropheV'and'teke'effective "measures | made to pay a luxury tax on them. i and a half millions. We ordinarily j
to humanize the relations between ! |,alk of chlna'5 population as 400,000,- I
man and man, between nations an.l TOO LATE 000. The probability is. ss i learned
nations. | If motion pictures had been invented earlier some of the | ".rlt"^a,s rccen,l>' pointed out, that |
Now is the time to fight the war c),jid photographs in the albums would look more natural. '
makers. If we allow them to con- ! .
JUST A SUGGESTION
Why doesn't Llovd George bring DeValera along with him
are able to realize the danger, and ,,nd ,et Harding act as referee?
then all protests will be in vain.
Perhaps M. Briand will demand that we also disarm Jacli
I In Flanders' fields.
IMR0D1I.K TKARS."
Ancient travelers, who as we all
re rather fond of nature-
faking, brought the story from Egypt
dodge the hurrying j crocodiles, in order to entlco
unwary persons in reach of their*
jaws, were in the habit of sighing;
and moaning. Likewise, that they
shed tears w hile devouring their vie**
tims.
Thus the phrase originated that]
one who expresses hypocritical sor-
row is shedding "crocodile tears."
Of course, the story about the
that word, moaning, sighing and weeping croco-
' <liles is not true, but the fact re-
you must jniains that this reptile has exception-
y large lachrymal glands and thle
t again proves that though sonio
the ancients misinterpreted tho
{knowledge they had acquired, they
No work! And yet, short days ago
We fought your battle with the foe
And won it, too, and now we loaf
In city parks.
You promised it would not be so
returned; by
vith us. defeat
though poppies .
tinue their gigantic preparations for
war, we shall have war before we
The best amethysts are brought
from Cambay, In India, I 1 Dempsey,
KRAZY KAT — Two and Two Always Makes Four.
THKY RKQl lRK BOTH.
"Lots of girls say they would
rather dance than eat."
"But they don't mean that. You
gotta buy supper for 'em."— Louis-
llle Courier-Journal.
knew a lot of things in a vague way
which latter day science has estab-
lished as facts.
the population is nearer 800,000,000. |
Por the census is taken by taxpayers i *
interested in keeping down the num-
bers. For grafting reasons old men,! ^ KLAHORAIK >1hM.
women and children are omitted from I "I understand the Laplanders eat
the figures entirely. Fully a third, candles."'
perhaps half, the population of the "Must be a big to do over a birth-
earth lives in China, and is bank-j day cake/" — Louisville Courier-I Peckton that were meekly obeyed."—«
rupt. [Journal. | Birmingham Age-Herald.
LN HIS GLORY.
"The Pecktons had a burglar seara
in their house last night."
"I noticed Peckton walking about
town with his chest stuck out. Did
he catch the burglar?"
"No, but for the first time la
twenty years he got a chance to is-
soine sharp commands to Mrs.
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