Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 138, Ed. 1 Monday, January 23, 1922 Page: 4 of 4
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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
Features
OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every day except Sunday by The Oklahoma I-eader Co.
Oscar Amertnger
Dan Hogan
John Hagel
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Editors
, $4.«0
, $2.00
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THE FOUR-POWER ALLIANCE
'...Business Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Dy Mall:
One Y ear
Six Months
Three Months
17 West Third Street, Oklahoma City. Okla.
p. O. Box 777. Telephone Maple 7600
Entered as second class mall Batter June 1, 191S, at the Postofflce
a♦ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3. 18«9. ^
AN INTERNATIONAL DANGER
An exchange says that we shall never live to see Germany
a great world power again, which would probably be true if
France would follow the timely advice of Great Britain in
allowing Germany to pay the indemnity awards in such a
manner as will permit her to maintain production and at
the same time preserve her present territorial boundaries.
Pressed, however, beyond her power to pay, and the employ-
ment of an invading army, as is threatened, to coerce her, Ger-
many may feel that she is forced to form an offensive and
defensive alliance with Russia, in which event an armed con-
flict might ensue with a result by no means profitable.
Russia's vast resources of raw material are surely in-
viting to the efficient and industrious Germans, and Ger-
many, with her wealth of machinery and great producing
power needs no better market than awakening and developing
Russia. If they should combine politically and economically,
they would furnish a power more formidable than any yet
organized in the world.
It is very apparent that Great Britain appreciates this, and
it is for this reason, perhaps, more than any other, that Lloyd
George is inclined to give Germany, not only an opportunity
to survive while meeting the heavy exactions of the Versailles
treaty, but also to refuie to furnish an excuse which a very
considerable proportion of the German people would enjoy,
of forming an offensive and defensive alliance with Russia.
which would not only be political and militaristic, but eco-
nomic and commercial as well.
The Four Power Pact, moreover, is an invitation to all the
other nations—which include Russia and Germany—to form
an alliance in self-protection, and this is likely to happen,
without regard to what the Poincare ministry may do. In
other words it appears that every pretended effort which Eng-
land, France, Japan and the United States make in the di-
rection of world peace, is in truth, provocative of a situation
which will produce war.
WE PAY MORE MONEY FOR GAS
If the farmers and wage earners, the forward looking and
liberty loving people of Oklahoma, who insist that special priv-
ilege shall be dethroned, were depending solely upon them-
selves to effect the change, the result might be in doubt. But|
they have many powerful and extremely able assistants.
With wages going down, with the prices of farm produce
lower than the pre-war level, with wholesale and retail mar-
gins reduced and everybody insisting that prices generally
must be reduced, the Oklahoma City Gas and Electric com-
pany takes an increased rate, there being every reason for a
decrease in rates rather than an increase, to say nothing of ^en.^rS u^d Tonl's^
its franchise contract to furnish gas for 35 cents per thousand.
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J MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS'
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife
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The Way Lillian <.allied a Respite
For 3Iarige.
"I told you, Margaret, long ago, to
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Copyright 1922. by Star Compan
You see here how illogical and unworkable such an alliance would be with Britain claiming (possession of the
advantages, the eagle shackled, France belligerent and sly Japan trying to burrow under.
put covers on these sofa pillows. I
hope you're satisfied now."
Mother Graham turned on me he-
fore her daughter, Elizabeth, was
fairly out of the room. It was no
more than I expected, I said grimly
to myself, no matter whose the fault
that angered, she would get round to
me .sooner or later. Then 1 caught
tho humiliated look In her eyes, and
realized the reason for this partlcu-1 Inlx.llu , , , h MarI,„.t
lar attack. My possessions ha,I been 1 ... " 110 "ls" -«. lKaret
was unintentionally in my voice a
trace of feminine triumph I felt at
being able to send Katie back to her
work after my mother-in-law and
her daughter had so signally failed
In their management of her.
What!" Mother Graham almost
screamed the word, then she started
tor the door.
"Government Business.**
"Why, 1 told Mrs. Ticer to go
down and get supper when she had
finished changing the beds!" she
said angrily. "There'll be an awful
through the door.
"1 have something so important to
consult you about." she murmured—
"government business, you know. 1
wish you would let Madge see to
Katie, and you give me a few min-
utes' time."
nnp-rv mtnrt .. i«~ Dicky would have characterized
th. mother s action at this point as
swallowing the bait, hook, line and
lly had been stung, her old-fashioned
dread of giving just cause for criti-
cism to an 'in-law" was torturing
her, and because of her hurt and
humiliation she was striking out
blindly at the first thing in reach.
Accordingly, I smothered the
dismissed the despoiled sofa pillow
with a casual "never mind," and
hastened on to the one sure topic
which would divert her mind:
'Did Junior wake up?"
sinker." Her melodramatic old soul,
housed queerly enough in her digni-
fied conventional body, delighta
above all things in anything savor-
ou 111. , ... oil ill au niiii^ rtavui -
She looked at me shrewdly, keen- jng of my8l„rinUB government work,
f,,. , 3 1 ' 8aVC " 8 °rt An<1 as Inquisition tortures would
6 MUkiV i' u ♦. n°t °l)en her once she has de-
f^ ? Supper. , dded to keep them closed on any
Well, if you don t mind, it's none I subject, Lillian has upon several oc-
of my business, she said, but 1 ^ cosions made use of her bv confid-
knew that she was relieved by my ! jug jU her
attitude, and in another second she j She appeared to increase in
was enthusiastically extolling her stature a good two inches at Lil-
idolized granchild.
"He is the best youngster," she
said with emphasis. "Just woke up
once as I was undressing him. mur-
mured, 'Hello, Panzie. Dooner turn
homo,' then dropped off to sleep
again. The blessed lamb! I don't
know how I've stood It without him.
Not that 1 don't love Elizabeth's
children," she said with belated loy-
alty, "but no one can ever take Rich-
ard Second's place with me."
She paused for a second in rapt
contemplation of Richard Second's
wonderful qualities, then straighten-
ed herself, threw up her head, and
held me with an eye that, if not glit-
tering, came uncomfortably near to
that time-honored description.
"What did you do with Katie?"
she demanded with an inflection in-
ARTHUR J1KISI1AM-:
eminent by workmen, the most hor-
rible thing in the eyes of what Mr.
Debs would call "the capitalistic
press" is any attempt by the farm-
ers to influence congress by united
action.
All they do is cultivate the soil,
r i u 11 it i i ay taxes, produce the sons and
C.f«. It. Helileu Dead Ashlers that do the successful
George II. Selden is dead. That worjc jn the cities, then feed the
means nothing to the average man, a: entire nation and supply the crops
great deal to those that make auto- that constitute the real national
ipobiles. Selden was the inventor of wealth. But there is nothing in
__ .. that, apparently, that justifies their
an explosive gasoline engine. It was
his patent that Ford fought succesa-
playing any real important part in
government.
Schwab, I iJimhi and Franklin.
Schwab and Edison put wreaths
on Franklin's statue yesterday. Mr.
and Mrs. Harding announced thai
they would send their shoes to the
cobbler regularly for repairs.
The seven thrift days are well
named. Practice thrift and you have
the material for a budget. Life in-
surance Is necessary to mak° vonr
budget work out to a certainty.
Thrift, budget and life insurance
I combined provide for the owning of
I a home. Thrifty men pay their bills
1 promptly, and share with others—
SOME TIMES. They make a will
that they may reach out of the grave,
for a little while, and direct after
| they are dead.
lian's words, preening herself like a
vain old peacock.
"Of course," she said graciously,
"government work must come before
anything else. Hurry out there. Mar-
garet, and keep Katie from being dis-
respectful tp Mrs. Ticer. .Not that
there's much choice between them.''
she added tartly, with the invariable
disparagement of any woman work-
ing for her, no matter how much the
real liking she has for the individual.
I escaped gladly, but I heard, even
as I closed the door, my mother-in-
law's voice in eager questioning, and
I knew that not only was she safo
from domestic interference for the
next quarter of an hour, but that tho
problem of keeping Dicky occupied
and ignorant of the nocturnal excur-
sion with Katie which Lillian and I
had planned could be safely left with
dlcating the suspicion that I hnd
either murdered the girl or had i her solution.
raised her wages unnecessarily. j So it was with much lightened
"She's getting supper, I believe," spirits that I started toward tho
I said casually, but I am afraid there kitchen and Katie.
Money Catechism
Dearborn Independent.
CO-OPERATION
It is illustrative of the unblushing afTrontery of the thieves
who are in the saddle, who use the political power of the
state to accomplish their purposes most brazenly, and it fur-
nishes a powerful argument in support of the already an-
nounced determination of the people to take charge of the
state government and stop the rule of the rogues.
HIRE THEM TO KEEP IT GOING
den has sailed away on his penu
nent peace ship. Ford last year in. *
more than a million automobiles. The
last court decided that Selden's pat-
ent was valid, but that Ford was not
using tt. *
Name Tour Altar.
If you built an altar, earthly, not
religious, to what would you dedi-
cate it?
In Germany a person named
Steiner has attracted many follow-
ers who attend occult ceremonies,
bowing down before three altars,
representing, respectively. Wisdom,
Beauty. Force. To what earthly idea
would you dedicate your altar, if you
built it? What about an altar to
Common Sense, or Perseverance, or
above all, to just plain JUSTICE?
Maternity Value.
A truck ran over a little girl
seven years old. The doctors said
her injuries would forever prevent
her having children. The gas com-
pany that owned the truck settled
with the child's father, paying
$15,000 for the child. $2,500 for him-
I self.
This is liberal enough, as such
■ V settlements go. But all the money
J. L. Swango. Miami, Oklahoma. .in the world could not supply the
For thebenefit of my fellow farmers I made some figures ^
on my own account which 1 submit in the tftble below. 1 ent cashed, dressed, thin hair nicely
to Mr. H. B. Campbell, who is my nearest grain dealer and got . brushed, ready to begin lif. with it's
the prices paid for corn and oats for 1913 to 1922, inclusive, breakfast.
Then I took my tax receipts for the same years and figured ,
how many bushels of corn and oats were required to pay my ' sUocklns: Farm -Block."
taxes for the year named. 1 did this in order to get my farmer
friends started to thinking in terms of production instead of geek to CONVjct the farmers of
in terms of dollars and cents altogether. It will not take you
presuming to take an interest in
half as long to read and understand this table and get the les- government, or pretending even to
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright, 1821, The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
THE NEMESIS
(With the Help of Coles Philips.)
If the friends of Mayor Walton, who are hopeful that
he will be the next Governor of Oklahoma, can induce the
Oklahaman and the Times to continue their unwarranted and
merciless persecution of the man, his success will be magnified
to suit their fondest dreams.
So vitriolic and hateful, so mean and uncharitable, so un-
reasonable and contemptible have been the persistently un-
truthful and slanderous assaults these two papers have made
upon Mr. Walton, that good people kr.ow there must be a
wicked and ulterior motive behind it.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
PRODUCTION AND PRICE
son in it as it did me to figure it out, so 1 ask you kindly to have rictus in
study it carefully.
♦♦emnt at sHf-cn-
When seeking to fix my thought
On a phrase with a lilt and swing,
To earth I am rudely brought
By a stridently plangent Vr-r-ring"!
I wearily rise and go.
With a hollow and heartfelt moan,
For deep in my soul I know
The person that's on the phone.
When rushing to catch a train,
As far as the street I've got,
The telephone rings again,
And back in the house I trot.
"It might be the boss," I say,
While hastening through the hall,
"He's back on the job today—"
But no! It's the same old call.
I waken at dead of night,
And furtively gaze around.
No burglars or thieves in sight.
But ah! that familiar sound!
I hurry across the room.
To still the dismaying "whizz"!
And I guess, in the shrouding gloom—
And successfully—who it is.
Wherever I chance to be,
This person pursues me still,
She always has harried me.
And probably always will.
I mutter a grumbling "Well?"
As the telephone stand I seize.
"Who's ringing this blasted bell?"
And she answers, "Excuse it, please!"
What is money?
Money is the accepted medium of
exchange in any political unit exer-
cising complete national power.
Of what is it made?
It ft immaterial. The decree of
government that gold or silver,
properly certified, shall be legal
tender, makes metal money. Similar
certificates of any other material or
thing of value would have the same
effect.
( Is not the metal of final redemp-
tion in this country gold? Yes and
no. The unit of value is the gold
dollar, but gold dollars are no longer
! coined and all the forms of money
i in use are not specifically redeem-
able in gold. For instance, the silver
dollar is the only dollar issued that
' is not a mere promise to pay. It is
, legal tender, although carrying a
smaller proportion of metal at mar-
ket value of bullion, than would
make it equal to gold. Yet it is a
dollar and its own redemption. Sil-
ver coins of other nations, carrying
a greater metal content than our
silver dollar, are worth less in this
country.
Why Is gold selected as the unit
of value? ^
On the fallacious reasoning that
such a unit is needed.
Why is that reasoning fallacious?
Because gold has no fixed value.
J It, like all commodities, is subject to
j the law of supply and demand. The
government has fixed its price at
| S20.67 an ounce, and for that reason
it appears to have a fixed value. But
this not a fact. Being a fixed price,
any variation in value must be
shown in the prices of other com-
the prices of which are not
so fixed.
(More tomorrow.)
\ REVISED BIBLE.
The Boston Transcript quotes this
sentence frt m a story: "Having
thrust a New Testament into his
pocket before starting he now took It
: out and read the Twenty-third
Psalm."
CO-OPERATION IN OKLAHOMA
All-American Co-operative Commission.
Hard times on the farm have done more to promote co-
operation than all the talking in the country. Farmers who
used to "get along well enough" by themselves are now anxious
to co-operate with their neighbors. For the saving of a thou-
sand dollars in marketing crops or buying supplies may now
mean all the difference between bankruptcy and solvency.
The farmers of Oklahoma have found that co-operation
pays. They saved $30,000 last year on purchasing a million
pounds of binding twine through their Farmers' Exchange.
They bought co-operatively over 400 cars of coal at a saving
| of $3 a ton. The 15,000 bushels of seed potatoes they needed
cost them $22,500 less than the best price from private dealers,
and a further saving of $1G,125 was made on 43 cars of eating
potatoes purchased this fall. In addition, the farmers who
! marketed their peach crop co-operatively through the Exchange
I received $1 a bushel more than the price paid by local buyers.
Profiting by this example and success elsewhere, the cotton
farmers of Oklahoma are now forming a co-operative associa-
tion to market their crop without the aid of brokers, specula-
tors and other middlemen.
A QUESTION" OF GRAMMAR.
"Do you say that your hens 'sit'
or 'set?'' 3ked the precise peda-
gogue of the busy housewife.
"It never matters to me what I
say," was the quick reply. "What
concerns me Is to learn when I hear
the hen cackling whether she is
laying or lying." — Farm and Fire-
side.
EXACTLY.
Offended Lady—That shopkeeper
insulted me. He said he kept every-
thing in his shop I could think of.
Policeman—Well, where is the in-
sult, ma'am?
Offended Lady—When I looked in
his shop it was empty.—New York
Sun.
TOO MUCH FOR HER.
Unobserved and unannounced, tho
president of "ladies' aid" society en-
tered the composing room of a news-
paper just in time to hear these
words issue from the mouth of tho
boss printer:
"Billy, go to the devil and tell him
to finish that 'murder' he began this
morning. Then 'kill* William .J.
Bryan's youngest grandchild, and
dump the 'Sweet Angel of Mercy' into
the hell-box. Then make up that
'Naughty Prison Actress,' and lock
up The Lady in Her Boudoir.'"
Horrified, the good woman fled,
and now her children wonder why
they are not allowed to play with tho
printer's youngsters.—"Philadelphia.
Public Ledger."
POKER TAXATION.
"What do you regard as the most
satisfactory form of taxation?"
"The kitty in the poker game," re-
plied Senator Sorghum. "It's liber-
al and perfectly reliable, and at the
same time everybody is too much
engaged in trying to win to notice
the expense."—Washington Star.
Year
1913 .
1914 .
1915 .
1916 .
1917 .
v1918 .
Price
Price
Amount
Taxes in
Taxes in
Corn
Oats
Taxes
Bu. Corn
Bu. Oats
$ .41
1 .35
$35.52
87—
101+
.60
.40
34.12
57—
85+
.60
.40
37.64
63—
94 +
.60
.34
65.93
93 +
164 +
.90
.55
46.27
51+
85—
1.55
47.94
31 +
1.25
.70
56.04
45—
80+
.65
.65
78.52
121—
121—
.50
.35
89.14
178+
255 +
.35
.22
94.11
269—
428—
KRAZY KAT — You Can't Beat This For Generosity.
BLISS FOR THE MOTORIST.
| "In heaven ihe streets will be
: paved with gold."
j "I don't care anything about tho
paying material," replied Mr. Chug-
, Kins, "if only they won't consider it
necessary to put up a lot of 'One-
way" sijzns."—New York Sun.
—/ty HERMMAN
open in )
More t
tural . *v
-5^ )'"nty clerk of my county (Craig) informs me that
/t of last year's taxes were collected, and I believe
-V ^/••■finances are in good shape, but how can they remain
f le price of farm products as they are now? The
ic ,k this locality are asleep, but I can hear a few of
thei. wling. If they wake up mad they are likely to fall |
into ei. again. It behooves them to wake up economically
and wisei/. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," anil
"Economic fools make good slaves."
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