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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
Features
OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every dij except Sunday by Tb. Oklahoma LMdcr Co.
Oscar Ameringer J Editor.
Dan Hotan j
John Hagel Manater
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17 West Third Stxe«t. Oklahoma City Okla.
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Entered ns second clasa mall matter June 1, 1918, at the Poet Office
st Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
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WHO WAS TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY?
Mr. Joseph Tumulty, who has written n book, "Woodrow
Wilson as I Knew Him," in a chapter dealing with incidents
which occurred ill the last days of the ex-president's official
life, says:
One of the thing* to which he paid particular attention at thl«
time was the matter of the pardon of Eugene V. Debs. The day
that the recommendation for pardon arrived at the white house
he looked It over and examined It carefully and said: "I will
neyer consent to the pardon of this man. I know that In certain
quartern of the country there 1s a popular demand for the pardon
of Debs, but It shall never be accomplished with my consent Were
I to consent to It, I should never be able to look Into the faces
of the mothers of this country who sent their boys to the other
side. While tbe flower of American youth was pourln* out Its
blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood
behind the lines, sniping, attacking and denouncing them. • • •
This man was a traitor to his country, and he will never be par-
doned during my administration."
• •••#••••
The charge made by Mr. Wilson that Debs "stood behind
the line sniping and attacking and denouncing" the boys on
the other side who were "pouring out" their "blood to vindi-
cate the cause of civilization," is, to use the politest term pos-
sible, a gross and misleading exaggeration.
The truth is Mr. Debs was never heard to utter one word,
publicly or privately, in denunciation of the boys who were
fighting on the other side. On the contrary, wherever he
mentioned the soldier boys he referred to them in terms of
kindness and sympathy.
Mr. Debs sympathized with them because many of them
had been led to believe they were fighting for high ideals,
when Mr. Debs knew, and as Mr. Wilson afterwards confessed,
they were fighting a commercial war, a war to make the mar-1
kets of the world safe for a certain group of labor exploiters.
Mr. Debs sympathized with them because he knew that mil- j
lions of them had been forced into the army against their will. |
But realizing that none of them were to be blamed for being
a part of it, never were words of condemnation allowed to
pass his lips, and for every one who lost his life, or was
maimed in the wholly unnecessary and uncalled for conflict,
Mr. Debs suffered more pain and sorrow than the world will
ever know.
.........
Mr. Tumulty quotes Mr. Wilson as saying that if he
should pardon Debs that he would "never be able to look into
the faces of the mothers of this country who sent their boys
to the other side."
But the mothers of this country were few indeed who
"sent their boys to the other side. " Mr. Wilson and the
other official weaklings with whom he was ussociated, sent
most of the boys to the other side, and worst of all, they sent
them over there under false promises, under claims which
were without foundation in truth, and we are sure that there
are thousands of mothers now who regret that Mr. Debs wan
not in the White House instead of Mr. Wilson. Had he been,
some 80,000 boys would not now be sleeping the sleep that
knows no waking.
Mr. Wil^m was elected the second time because he "kept1
us out of war," the mothers of the boys elected him because
they believed, as commander in chief of the army and navy, j
he would continue to keep us out of war; and then, notwith-1
standing that vote, and that no other or further cause for
hostilities occurred from the date of his election until his
war message was transmitted to congress, he put us in the
war. Moreover, when he returned from Europe he told a
deputation of senators that in his opinion, without the inter-1
vention of any of the alleged reasons he gave for going in,
we would have gotten into it anyway.
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Then we went in. Our gallant army, imbued with the
ideals and bright promises Mr. Wilson made, went over there
and died by the tens of thousands to make his word good.
They believed him and sought to make him the greatest leader,!
the greatest statesman, the best loved man in the world. And
after our boys won the war Mr. Wilson went to Europe to
write the terms of peace.
He sat down at the so-called peace table at Versailles
with the imperialism of Europe and forgot every one of his
ideals—every one of the promises by which he induced Ameri-
ican boys to become European soldiers.
"Open covenants openly arrived at?" The peace confer-
ence was secret. "Peace with understanding?" Representa-
tives of the central powers were not even invited. "No forcible
annexations, no punitive indemnities?" That was almost the
sole work of the conference. "The preservation of the rights
•t subject peoples?" Their rights were forgotten. "Justice
and the right of self-determination for Russia?" The block-
ade, war from four directions, slander, isolation, starvation,
and ruin for Russia. "A war for Democracy?" It was a war
to strengthen and fasten autocracy and imperialism upon a
world which had spilled its dearest blood, as it thought, for
liberty. "A war to end war?" The treaty of Versailles was a
war pact, a combination of belligerents against, other belliger-
ents, a violation of every promise Mr. Wilson had ever made,
a repudiation of every ideal he had ever expressed.
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And then having betrayed the people who had honored
and trusted him, he came home and tried to induce American
citizens to accept and ratify that betrayal. They refused.
He and the party were overwhelmingly rebuked. And this
is the man who says that Debs was a traitor to his country.
The friends of Mr. Debs are entirely willing for history
to decide who was the traitor. It was not Debs. And this
shall be about the last thing we shall ever say about Mr.
Wilson
THE FRIE ND OF THE OPEN SHOPPER
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MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS J
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife 1
Heart* l>o Break.
".Men have died, and worms have =
eaten them, but not for love," says
Shakespeare.
Men do not die of u broken heart. The Way Madge Avoided a Quarrel t "Commend me to a woman for dig-
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Women do, sometimes.
A Dr. Glickstein was shot dead, in
hiH office, by a woman unknown.
Yesterday another woman, the
mother of the dead man, looked into
her dead son's coffin and dropped
With Dicky.
Irritation at Dicky topped my as-
tonishment at his acuteness of per-
ception concerning my unwillingness
to leave the Cosgrove farmhouse be-
dead. Women take things more ser- fore Bess Dean's departure.
iously than men. If they did not. j reVerted mentaljy to an almost
children would not be so well cared ■ forgott,,n CI,lthet of my mUe girl
school days, told myself that he was
The Gorilla Family. decidedly "smarty" in his exhibition
Akeley, mighty hunter for the of mlud-roading. To show him that
Natural History Museum, is coming he was mistaken I would have given
back from Africa bringing back an , much and in the attempt said the
entire family of five gorillas. The , first thing that came into ray head,
father weighs 360 pounds and is j "If you had permitted me to fiulsh
thin. my sentence." I said with mendacious
That Is by means top weight, dignity, "you would have learned
Some of the red-haired gorillas, that not Miss Dean, but your sister,
eight feet high, weigh as much as a Elizabeth, is the real reason for my
fair sized horse. wishing to delay in going home."
When the gorilla family arrives ! His face darkened. I knew the
and is nicely stuffed, see it. look. It was the "in-law"' glance
You will ask yourself, "How I worn by most husbands and wives
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright, 1921, The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
ADS AND THE MAN
ALL TMf
FA MIL
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My wants, about a month ago,
Were relatively few;
I did not care for style or show,
Like certain parties do.
Enough to wear, enough to eat,
A little money saved,
A house upon a quiet street,
Were all 1 thought I craved.
Content I roamed the city when
The Yuletide season neared.
Unconscious of desires—and then
The Christmas ads appeared.
And now my peace of mind has tied;
I want a Restwell chair,
A Ha^rriock Sprint'- Sleep-easy bed.
A Zip electric flare,
A kit-t act nag for Motor Trips,
A Find-It letter file,
A set of Grippy Clothing Clips
That keep your pants in style,
A Last-Forever Limousine,
A Chime-Tone parlor clock,
An Ajax bottle-tip machine,
A Guardwell cellar lock.
Alas, an altered man am I.
My means are very small;
A month ago 1 would not buy
This kind of thing at all.
But all these ads before my eyes
Parade each day, until
They fairly seem to hypnotize
A weak and yielding will.
And as my shopward way I wend,
When my day's work is done,
If but my coin holds out to spend,
I'll get them, every one.
should we humans feel if a gorilla
came up from South Africa, killed a
white family of five, took it home to
be stuffed?"
Next you will notice the baby
gorilla, infinitely more intelligent,
and human, in appearance than the*
older animals. Like ourselves goril-
las get uglier, and less like humans,
as they grow old. Nature makes
all babies pleasing, wonderful in ap-
pearance, including little rabbits,
gorillas and men. That persuades
the mothers to take good care of
them. Every mother says, "I have
a wonderful baby."
Birth Control.
A reverend gentleman earnestly
and convincingly denounced birth
control. He says its advocates would
yield themselves up "to a life of pas-
' slon." It would be bad for the world
j if large families ceased; we still
iirble • need thera- But there may be a rea-
sonable way-station between "a life
of passion" and twelve or fifteen
children for one mother.
Yesterday's news told of a mother
in Tampico having eight babies at
one birth, all still-born. If that hap-
pened to her two or three times, and
they lived, which luckily they never
do under such conditions, her views
on birth-control would be interesting.
No man, of course, is fit to decide
the question, since no man really
knows anything about it. One chlld-
"SWAN SONG."
"Place me on Sunium's
steep,
Where nothing save the waves and I
May hear our mutual murmers
sweep;
There, swan-like, let me sing and
die."
—Byron.
The allusion to the ancient belief
that the swan, mute throughout life,
gains melodious voice shortly before
death, was thim utilized by Byron in
one of his finest poems.
bearing'eiperlence" might modify his
views considerably.
used to denote the last work of an
author or composer.
The ancients called the swan the
bird of Apollo or of Orpheus.
The idea that its last hours are
blessed with song probably origin-
ated with the theory of the trans-
migration of souls, believed in by
the Egyptians and accepted by the
Greek philosopher of Pythagoras.
Even the great Socrates refers to
this superstition. He says:
"I think men are all wrong when
they say that the swans before
death sing sadly bewailing their
end. They sing then most and most
sweetly exulting that they are going
to their God They sing then
not out of sorrow or distress but
because they are inspired by Apollo
and they sing as foreknowing the
good things their God hath In store
for them."
RM4«r.
ALL IN ONE WORD.
As the man and the maid strolled
through the picture-gallery, the
' woman stopped before one of the ex-
hibits.
■ "Oh, how sweet!" she breathed.
"I wonder what it means?" ques-
tioned the young fellow, as he eyed
| the pictured pair who clung together
in an attitude of love and longing.
"Oh, Charlie, don't you see?" the
girl chided tenderly. "He has just
asked her to marry him and she has
[consented. It's lovely! What does
I the artist call the picture?"
The young mair leaned nearer and
eyed a label on the frame.
"I see!" he cried. "It's printed on
'this card here—'Sold!'" — Tit-Bits
(London.)
Exchange L'p—Happy.
Yesterday the English pound ster-
ling was worth one dollar more than
a year ago. It sold at $4.24, not far
I from par. Gentlemen in high finance
think England hasn't lost anything
by the' recent conference negotia-
tions. And they probably are right.
Prance is delighted, England is de-
lighted, Japan is delighted—the
four-Power agreement. Uncle Sam
is rich, he has a hundred million
children, his dear friends and neigh
bors only got ten thousand million
dollars out of hira last time. There')
lots left. There is cause for being
delighted with a treaty that makes
him a partner and a guarantor.
Forced Consolation.
However, there is some comfort
Frank* Munsey, wizard at figures,
discovers that war-bonds and Lib-
erty bonds have increased in value
lately to the extent of two thousand
million dollars.
RAZZY RETORT.
Doctor—Your profession doesn't
make angels out of men, does it?
Lawyer—No! We leave that to the
doctors.—Atlantic City Union.
%RAZY KAT— Around About a Bit.
I1IS BUSY DAT.
Miss Inquisitive- Did you celebrate
the Fourth of July, doctor?
Dr. Soquem—No, the fifth.—St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
COMING AND GOING.
Alice—Gladys married Dick for his
money.
Virginia—And then divorced him
I for the same object.—New York Sun.
BEHIND IN THOSE.
"Don't you think Maud is an up-to-
date girl?"
"Yes. except with her birthdays."—
Boston Transcript.
when the relatives upon the "other
side" are being discussed. I am not
sure that my own face has not un-
consciously assumed it.
'What's the matter with Lisa?" he
demanded. "She's always been
pretty decent to you."
I'll Ire Iter—•**
"Is that to be counted an especial
star irt her crown of rejoicing?" I re-
torted. "But. as it happened, I'm not
denying her kindness and forbear-
ance to an outlander. I'm simply
looking at things in a common-sense
way. You know very well that with
Elizabeth and William anji four chil-
dren there, it will be most confusing
for us to come in upon them. Mother
and Katie will be fit to be tied."
I hurried nervously through my
last words, for I was a trifle ashamed
of the reference I had made to an
old grudge of mine.
When Dicky and I were married,
his mother and his sisters had been
decidedly cool and lofty, with the
evident attitude that the idolized
male of the family had made a mes-
alliance. All three of them in the
years since then had tried to atone
for their lack of cordiality, but I
never had felt that Elizabeth's con-
trition was sincere.
My mother-in-law I had grown to
love sincerely, and I felt distinct af-
fection and admiration for Harriet
Braitwaite, Dicky's elder sister. But
Elizabeth Harrison—to outward ap-
pearance the sweetest:tempered,
most placid of the three women—al-
ways had affected me adversely, and
in my inmost heart I knew that I
never had forgiven her for those long
past slights, although I had tried to
keep my feeling from my husband's
ging old grudges from their graves,"
he said scathingly. "But if your sen-
sitive soul is so wrung by tbe pros-
pect of Lisa's proximity, why thews
is nothing more to be said. I'll wiro
her that you'd like to have her clear
out before you get there."
\ Tense Moment.
That in a sudden gust of anger
Dicky would be perfectly capable of
doing the preposterous thing he had
suggested I well knew. And I thor-
oughly appreciated the necessity of
turning his anger In some other di-
rection, or diverting him to good
humor if it were possible to do so.
ommend me to a man for twist-
ing innocent remarks to suit bis own
convenience!" I retorted. "Because I
am planning to save confusion, guard
your mother from worry, and, inci-
dentally, to keep you—the one who
ould most dislike the confusion—
from a dlstateful experience, you fly
into a< passion and plan to send an
Insulting message like that to your
sister. As for this sudden hurry to
go home, don't think you are mis-
leading me. I am perfectly well
aware that there will be no especial
attraction for you here after Bess
Dean goes home."
I stopped abruptly, breathless, a.
trifle terrified, and bravely suppress-
ing a desire to laugh. For Dicky's
face was a study in bewilderment.
It is my pride'that I have always
kept any jealousy under such rigid
control that Dicky rould have no
possible knowledge save hiH own
keen intuitions that it existed. And
1 had had no need of suppressing any
feeling concerning Bess Dean save a
possible amazement at her audacity.
That Dicky had fathomed my atti-
tude toward her I was sure, and I
appreciated to the full the bewilder-
ing surprise which was his at my
outburst.
"Well, I'll be internally boiled in
oil if you aren't the outside limit!"
he gasped. "So you mean to tell me
that you've taken seriously—"
Something in my eyes must have
betrayed me. He stopped short and
looked at me steadily. Then, with a
chuckle, he seized me by the should-
ers and shook me with a burlesqued
energy, his good humor palpably re-
stored."
"You little devil," he said. "Eve
had nothing on you for getting out
of a slippery situation. "Becausc
you were peeved at me for mind-
reading your desire to let Bess Dean
fly the coop first, you drag Lisa in.
Then, when you're afraid I'll spill
the beans in that direction, you
knowledge as much as it was in fem- , switch back and try to make me be-
inlne nature to do. | lieve you're jealous. Darn It! I'd
Dicky sprang to his feet, crossed like to make you red-headed, crazy
the room, and towered above me, I jealous of me just once. But you're
frowning. too cold-bloodedly Puritan for that."
CO-OPERATION
WORKERS LAUNCH CREDIT UNION
All American Cooperative Commission.
Organized labor of Berks county,
Pennsylvania, has started a Workers'
Credit Union, with a capital of $30,-
000 fully subscribed, for the purpose
of taking the control of labor's
money out of the hands of private
hankers—who are often allied with
They stayed down around *84-85-86 |abor,s en(,ml(.Si an(J mobilizing It for
long enough to make little people Lroductlve pun,oa«,s and the further-
sellout. Then bigger people bought I, o( labor,g ajms This cred|t
in, and now the bonds have increased
two thousand millions in dollars.
"To him that hath shall be given."
Anyhow, the little fellows had the
satisfaction of being patriotic for a
while. That's good for their moral
character.
THE OFFICIAL WAT. ^
"Why does your husband slam the
doors so? Is he mad?"
DESTINY.
Pat Murphy was a great favorite
in the works. Even the master would
sometimes stop and crack a joke with
him.
One day the boss met Pat.
"Morning. Pat!" he said. "I hear
that lately you've taken quite a fancy
for the girls."
Pat blushed and sniggered.
"Have you not met your fate yet?" iville Courier-Journal
asked the master.
"Sure and begorrah, sir," ex-
claimed Pat sadly, "I met one of her
father's fate last noight!"—Answers. I "No, he's mnrried."
Tendon. Courier-Journal.
uuiou is to be made the basis for a
workers' co-operative bank as soon
as sufficient capital is acquired.
From its headquarters in Reading, a
campaign has already begun to or-
ganize similar credit unions through-
out the state. The committee on
Banking and Credit of the All Amer-
ican Co-operative commission of
Washington, D. C., has tendered its
assistance to the Pennsylvania co-
operators in this important move-
ment.
FAITHFUL.
Saleswoman—That's a pretty little
thing you're looking at. It's an en-
gagement book, to keep a note of
your engagements.
Muriel—I don't need it. I'm really
engaged to only one man. The others
don't matter much.—Answers, Lon-
don.
MARY WINS.
Mary, 6 years old, walking along a
country lane with her mother, sud-
denly exclaimed: "Oh, I saw a bunny
rabbit run down there!"
"Nonsense, child! Imagination,"
said her mother.
Mary was silent for a few minutes;
then: "Mummie, Is 'maginatlons white
behind?"—Answers, I^ndon.
Her
IN THE FAMILY.
Mother—I understand, my
"Not at all. It's just a force of , dear, your husband Is very stingy
habit. He's a railroad man."—Louis- with his needy relatives.
j She—That's not true, mother. He's
' so generous that he would give them
Ql'ITE TBi'E, Ql'ITE TRUE. the clothes off his back, for when t
Is Flubdub a free thinker?" | asked him where his overcoat was,
lewisville j so that I could put it away, he said
I his uncle had it.—Answers, London.
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