Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 139, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 24, 1922 Page: 4 of 4
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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
Features
OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every day except Sunday by Th. Oklahoma Leader Co.
Oscar Ameringer (
Dan Hogan J"
John llagel
.....Business Manager
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a' Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, under the Act of Man h 3. ! .. ■
AN ARDENT HOPE
HOOVER SIDESTEPS COAL PROBLEM
Hoover says there seems to be no feasible means of avert-
ing the threatened strike of coal miners.
The contracts in both the bituminous and anthracite coal
fields expire March 31. A strike of the soft coal miners seems
certain unless the bosses back down on their threat to reduce
wages—and a strike of the hard coal miners is also a proba-
bility. . ..
The bosses contend that about 30 per cent of the soft
coal miners are non-union and working for lower wages, and
that they cannot compete with the non-union mines without
reducing the wages of the union men.
Hoover has a committee of operators and consumers
studying the situation. It finds that the coal industry is
from 30 to 40 per cent overdeveloped, and that the average
'employment of a mine worker is only about 180 days per;
'year. This, the committee pays, produces an inferior scale
of living for the mine worker, a highly speculative industry
Hot the operator, and unduly high prices for the consumer.
• The committee is said to be continuing the study of the
'problem with a view to recommending a permanent stabiliza-
1tlon of the industry.
1 But that is probably wind—for Hoover sees no feasible
'means of averting a strike. ,
1 There are two feasible ways to avert a strike. One is for
'the administration to compel employers to pay at least thi
wages they are paying at present. The other is for the gov-
•ernment to take over the mines.
1 With its customary inefficiency the administration will:
'either bulldoze the workers into calling off the strike, or it;
'will let the strike come and then use its power to help the
'employers to break the union and win the strike.
> Iii short, it will settle nothing unless it has to—unless
>it ig forced to do so by public opinion. It will muddle through
and postpone the solution of the problem.
For, a strike won by the employers would do just that—
postpone the solution of the problem.
i Indeed, a strike won by the workers would also postpone
i, it—unless it resulted in public ownership of the mines. There
- is no permanent solution short of public ownership.
ti
iSWESS
MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS;
Adelc Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife I
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The Way Madge Translated" Katie
to Mr*. Ticer.
From the kitchen, as I neared it*
came the sound of feminine voices-
Katie's shrill and rapid, Mrs. Ticer's
deep and measured.
I quickened my footsteps almost to
a run, for there was danger of a do-
mestic catastrophe if these distinctly
opposing types became
inv argument.
"Mr. Graham is awfully hungry
and—"
"I know," Katie interrupted with
cheerful unconscious impertinence.
"He shooBt like vun old bear got
sore head, ees Meester Graham ven
he hoongry. But I know vot he like,
eef he, hoongry. und dot queeck, too
— ham und eggs, und hasheed brown
potatoes, und hot beeskit. und pre-
ngaged in i served strawberries, und salad—"
PHJH "Don't name i.nything else. Katie.
"I certainly am not anxious to help or I sholl begin to eat you." I cried,
you." I heard Mrs. Ticer s voice say and in her answering giggle and
calmly as I reached the door. "I Mrs. Ticer's broad smile I saw the
would not have come in here at all, final averting of hostilities.
but old Mrs. Graham asked me to get gut I stayed in the kitchen trans-
supper. 1 supposed you were still lating Katie\ orders into requests
in bed, where you've been for three for lhe benefit of touchy Mrs. Ticer.
days." and working feverishly myself until
There was an edge to Mrs. Hcer s j jn reaiiy creditable time the deli-
calm voice, which told me she was, (.jOU8 supper was on the table, and
in her own parlance, hufTy and t^e famjiy gathered eagerly around
which I knew was enough to drive ^ /
Katie into hysterical anger. ..We.re wey sandwiehed. five
••Not «, e«t your l«;«ni * *rown-upa and five youngster.."
she demanded hotly. 1 no i)tcky commented genially from the
you notlngs ven you go by your bed. ' , ,. • '
I You tell me notings about my beez-
' nls. Und I tell you now. nobody but
me. myself, feexes supper for my
darling Meesis Graham."
She had uot seen me enter and be-
hind her back 1 made a silent appeal
head of the table—the prospect of
food when he is hungry always
makes him good-natured. "Elizabeth,
your five and Marion ought to have
some bang-up times here."
Mrs. Harrison smiled vaguely at
r Company.
TODAY
ARTHUR BRISBANE
at once and tell Mrs. Ticei^ you are
sorry for speaking to her so rudely."
"l et Is Both Help.**
It—and will, unless the best motto as a guide in life, been paid more than $5 for his . She looked at me in wildly «>bel-
! Henry Ford .ueeeed. In convincing and Julius Rosenwald got 15 for motto. He ought to have It en- ,°{Jfer'thethougtit'of her great da£
nven hunt
, for tolerance to Mrs. Ticer, whose al- . bim.
ways high-colored face was taking j "I 1111 afraid my children s play
' on the hue of a turkey gobbler's. *ould alarm Mrs. Underwood's
while 1 was afraid that the buttons ' daughter." she said sweetly. "I find
of her tight gown would share the ! so few children who can enter Into
fate of Peggotty<« if she became it"
much angrier. I crossed to Katie's j I never have heard anything mora
side. placed myself between her an-1 , subtly offensive than her tone. It
Mrs. Ticer, so that the elder woman sweepingly consigned Marion to the
could not see Katie's face and mur- , outer limbo of those who "never can
niured softly but firmly: know and never can understand.
"Katie if you want me to 'save I iind contrasted her ordinary mind
[you.' as you said, you must stop this | with the rarefied intellects of her
own darlings. I glanced across the
table at Lillian, expecting to see her
furiously angry. But a had forgot-
ten her inestimable gift of humor.
Her eyes were dancing and with-
necessary
CAREFUL. MEN, FOLLOW THE LAW
Lf r
Think A boot tiold.
To "make it easy ' for Germany,
she will be allowed to pay thirty-
one million .narks, seven million
dollars in gold, every ten days, un-
til further orders. War is expen-
sive. even when it is over, and in
the end it may be found that Ger-
many. with all her indemnities, was
not the greatest war loser.
For as Henry Ford s investigators
discovered, "every German factory
is busy," and that is more import -
ant than a little gold more or less, j
This country has nearly all of th
The Leader demands that those who were responsible for gold gathered in, |6 o.ooo.o<hi
the death of Jake Brooks shall be punished, but it insists that more of it last year, but here we
..... .l haven't got ever) lactory busy
j those accused, whoever they are, whether they be those now somebody should write a poem on
d in custody, or those who mav be apprehended, shall have a the ~jur.es or gold, as it pours into
i, lair and impartial trial and that their guilt, before their pun- "K.
ishment,shall be established beyond a reasonable doubt. mountains to India, coral strand
v The displacement of the regular prosecutor. Mr. Hughes. Ulmt' d'E au"
s who has shown commendable activitiy in the performance of 18 picked up in solid lumps as
n his duties; the uncalled for and the unnecessary dabbling of big as your thumb in river beds, li
n ls (uuu,j j0 iarge yellow fiakes high
ji the governor and his satellites, the effort to discredit antl in- Up |n M, mountains, it is taken
s terfere with attorneys who say they represent the defendants, irom holes in Um ground a mile
the uncalled for effort to drag Mayor Walton's name into the toTel one-twen-
affair, and the third degree methods which are said to have t,etb of an ounce of gold -and .till
been used in securing alleged evidence, do not look good, and 11 m„u cnlsh lhe or.
those who are indulging in this method of procedure are ex- chemists take out gold in particles
h hibiting a bias which does not comport with the conduct of too small to be seen lu another
• .... place. Chinamen .it patiently wash-
C men who are intent upon dealing out equal and exact justice *U(, ^ut a lew dolla,s ortfc oI
n to all. The people will not approve of SUCh conduct, the law golden grains per da; You traiel
t. does not permit it and those who believe in the enforcement the w£l
of the law will not tolerate it without protest. Here lie the crumbling bonis of a
r Take vour time, gentlemen. The officers of the law are i*"1* or do"k<:y' * 'I"1'''"rth^L!,l!!
, , , . . grinning skull of a man. some
t on trial just as the accused are. The community is on trial, ,.arly gohl prospector, l guess." the
u and it shall be acquitted if its servants discharge the duties guide tell. you.
vi which their official oaths impose, fearlessly, but fairly, hon- rh(. profitless lure.
estly and without an apparent effort to discredit good and when the first dom. like that on
true men to the self aggrandizement of certain politicians. ""huSJf'did not know how-to'how
' UP the walls, as they rose gradually
I toward each other. So the in.ide of
. the duuie was titled witu earth, on
| which the rising walls rested. unUl
they finally uiei at the lop and held
themselves by their o n strength.
THE BUSINESS OF THE PEOPLE SZ "Z;
i as It was racked In under the rising
Minnesota Star ! dome. When the work was done the
Minnesota bur. , m<)b ln eagerly, carrying out
Prosperity for a community or for son who visit, the Industrial cities sr,at load, of the loose dirt, in the
V*1 ,.rinnp\IUt " " '.ending In this : graved, framed and sent to some gcr, or the old habit of obedience to
"\ature seenn to hare planted gold "1 w0Uld raUler a ^ggar and that need It. me. put its curb upon her and she
all over the earth as the Italian ar- 1 sPend m>' mone>' lille a kln*' ,haD dodged around me, both hands out-
hitect planted silver coins in the b* a kinS nd "P""1 mone>' 1,ke ; New Irelund. stretched to Mrs. Ticer. Katie never
Yesterday English troops drilled Ticer."she
for the last time in the great court- 1 contritely.
earth under his dome, that men might 1 a beggar."
dig. explore and discover. ' Rosenwald who has given
many millions to charity, disregard-
A Chicago newspape- asked for 1 ing religion and color. should hayp
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright. 1921, The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
"I no beeznis spik
yard of Dublin Castle. The English iike dot to you. You please forgif?"
went out. the Irish went in. with ■ "Of course. Katie." Mrs Ticer^s
Griffith at the head. A new era be- : smile illuminated her whole face. 1
gins. After more than seven hun- j Knew you didn t mean it. And now
dred years of fighting, war with the me , Ky?u' v
Kngllsh ls ended—for the time being ne n
'Let us both help you. Katie," I
said, deeming It wiser to retain my
place as a buffer between the two
out laughing or even smiling broad-
ly, she appeared to be on the point
of exploding with mirth.
I saw ray sister-in-law cast a
quick, furitlve glance at her. and
then even her supposedly unshak-
able composure failed her for an in-
stant. and her smooth pink cheeks
flushed an angry brick red. And
then I realized that Lillian had not
been so impervious to the criticism
of Marion as I had thought, and that
she had employed a very effectual
feminine weapon in the punishment
of Mrs. Harrison's impertinence.
BENEFITS FORGOT
CO-OPERATION
CO-OPERATIVE SUGAR FACTORIES
[
j WHAT OTHERS SAY
a nation is not bunt on the founda- j of the country and the fearful .turns nope of finding some trifling stlvei
tion of griding toll and misery for in which «o many of the workers j coin hurled in It
workmen and lavish profits for a live can see the necessity for it. We . To hire them at regular wages to
few. It ls built upen an equitable ' have been altogether too content to carry off so much earth would have
sharing of the profits of industry. It let captains of Industry manage cost ten times what the silver coins
may be objected that we never have what they were pleased to call "Uielr \ cost.
had an equitable sharing of the j own business." It never was and And so it is w ith gold Kvery dol-
frulta of industry, an objection that never is their own business. It is 1 lar s worth of it ln existence has
moet everyone will admit to be well the public's business. The public cost at least two dollars in tabor and
founded. But we have had. never- does not need to permit the exis- i" wasted money, to say noihm^
theless. conditions In different parts tence of slums. There is a renndv 'he crime and loss of life that have
« the world and at different times for them. The remedy is not ln mu- gone with the gold hunting. And still —.....
■verse enough to show us tenden- nlclpal reform nor In new schemes . .r T . r
. les. Who likes to live in a com- of housing It is In better wages J\RAZl KAI — Ig'llcltZ IS r OllPU .-\gaill.
munity in which bitter poverty for for workingmen primarily. Betier
The case of Dan. the hold-up man.
Is really quite unique.
When nights were dark, he'd roam the park
His livelihood to seek.
He'd give good folks strong, sturdy soaks
Upon their craniums.
And then depart, quite light of heart.
With very tidy sums.
A husky cop once chanced to stop
Beneath an elm tree's shade
Close by where Dan, the hold-up man.
Was working at his trade.
The bandit's plea to let him be
Was made without avail;
He spent the night locked safe and tight
Inside a strong, stone jail.
The judge who heard the case averred
That Dan had misbehaved,
"Yet I am sure," said he, "that you're
Kot hopelessly depraved.
With evils rife is prison life;
It sears a young man's soul:
And makes it ill, and so I will v
Release you on parole." v
You'd think that Dan, the hold-up man,
Would go his ways in peace,
As one imbued with gratitude
Because of his release.
But that, dear sir, is where you'd err:
He kept well out of sight
Till fall of dark, then sought the park,
And robbed ten men that night!
at least. The next problem of the
Irish is to agree among themselves.
It is hard to give up fighting, en-
tirely. after having enjoyed seven
hundred years of It.
I ntaxeri Bonds.
Mr. Mellon, secretary of the treas-
ury. second richest man in the world.
advises, as did President Harding, a
constitutional amendment to stop is-
sum* bonds that pay no taxes to the Al!-American Co-operatHe c ommission.
sovernment. Apparently his views Aa .. ' ., „r ' ^
on taxes are not controlled by a few The state of New South \\ ales, Australia, has loui co-
| hundred millions of his own. operative sugar factories, supplying the needs of the people
| Mr. Mellon says that more than non-Drofit basis. The price of sugar in New South Wales
:TEN THOUSAND million doi- never jr0ne above 6 cents a pound, even while we were pay-
rVh'ierfhe government* «Tuecfs' i„" SO cenl a pound h«re Th^sugar speculators are said to
not one cent oft income tax. That have cleaned up a billion dollars in profits from the Ameiican
makes a nice safety cyclone cellar people last year. What foolish people those Australians are to
for people with plenty of money. pnd profiteering in sugar ?
i for people with plenty of money
Money Catechism
Dearborn Independent.
I AM BOSS.
' I have a great dog.
I call him "Pluck." from the way
He takes his medicine.
I kicked him 'tother day.
And right away.
' He licked my boot.
Could the government make any
thing but gold the unit of value"
Certainly. Prior to the demoneti- gome time ago
zaUon of silver that metal was a snapped the head
uitft of value. From a chicken—
is not pold a universal money: { suppose
that is. does not the gold dollar of was hungry—
the United States pass current in Anyhow, right then
i foreign countries? j trounced him;
No; gold coins of any nation are Qave him a regular
estimated at bullion value elsewhere Qpen Shop Drive
tlhan in the country of issue. you ought to have seen hiifi
Has gold ever been demonetized'' pawn an(i wag his tail
Yes. In the '60s the Netherlands. And lick my hand.
Belgium and Germany demonetized Today he was sick.
• gold and made silver the sole unit At any rale j thought
of value, or money base, in their re- j He was sicjt.
spective jurisdictions. He was lying flat.
j Why was this done? 'Eyes watery; anl
The discovery of vast deposits of He wagged bis tail feebly.
free gold in California and Australia j 8poke to turn-
led to the fear on the part of hold- He got up si0wly;
ers of money credits tljat the in- pjrgt gazing at the chickens.
crease of the world's supply of gold An(1 lhen al me
would render the metal so cheap as j thought maybe he's hungry,
to depreciate its money value. j got blm a iittie piece
Has paper money ever been at a qj nver:
premium over gold? Then he was all right.
\es. It is stated that at the ex-1 you see I'm an employer;
piration (in 1811) of the charter of j know how to force
ihe Bank of North America, the first ^he proper dog psychology.
national bank organized in the __ rv Heck, in Solidarity.
United States, its notes were at a
: premium over coin. The govern- ,
ment held the majority of the shares "When I hears a man lecturln
of that institution, and it was the 'bout de 'sponsibilities foh ^ street
only bank in the history of the coun- cleanin'," said Uncle hben. I ain t
i try that was not owned by private got time to listen. But when I sees
i capital. one shovelin' snow. I takes mv hat
(More tomorrow.) 'off to him."—Washington Star.
A TOUGH ADVERSARY.
Archdeacon Whateley was having ,
an argument with a friend, as re-
lated in a book of anecdotes, and
his friend said: "One cannot argue
with you, for you never admit one's
premises. I don't believe that you
would admit without argument that
two and two make four." "Certainly
not," said the archdeacon. "For in-
stance, they might make 22."—Out-
look.
ALL GONE.
"You say dry agents carried off
a truckload of choice drinkables
while the restaurant proprietor was
protesting that he didn't have a drop
on the premises?"
"Yes, and by the time he got
through protesting he was telling
the truth."—Birmingham Age-Her-
ald.
ALL RIGHT, JOE.
From the "Want" columns of an
Oregon paper: Stolen or rund away
—Been loose him bout two tree veeka
now. hees almost black and white
dog him tail cut off pritty close to
my body. If somebotty find her,
keep it. i belong to him.- JOE BORE-
DEAM.—San Francisco Chronicle.
CHANCE FOR A 1URK HORSE.
Sister—I think if you would pro-
pose to Mabel she would accept you.
Jack (eagerly)—Do you? Has she
said anything?
Sister—No, but I know she is
deeply in love with Harry Maxwell
and his engagement has just been
announced Boston Transcript.
—By HEKtUMAN
the many and great wealth for a few
is the rule? Nobody does. The men
who take their wealth out of such
a community are the most anxious
to leave it. just as the murderer
shuns the scene of his crime. If
they can't get entirely away they
buiid for themselves palaces infH
wages make more alert and more
able citizens, better equipped to fight
for proper civic conditions.
Grinding wage slavery may in the
end generate a move to correct the
conditions which have caused it. but
the movement when it comes is like-
ly to be an explosive movement and
remote part of the city, so they can ; not greatly constructive. It will
retain a "business like" attitude to- j have too great a load of hatred and
ward tbeir business. face too great a task of reconstruc-
If the men who have created an i tion for its powers.
who share in the benefits of th- The public eventually must be
great family fortunes drained out of brought to realize that its interest
the stockyards district in Chicago jg affected far more seriously by
were compelled to live among their low wages and long hours than by
own workers, they might have made i the temporary stoppage of any in-
conditions different around the d us try It must be brought to re-
yards. | alize that the prosperity of cheap
labor and swollen profits is a con-
It will be profitable for the Am-' dition that must inevitably bring dis-
erican people to awaken among ; aster. It cau not bring enduring
themselves a public interest in th- prosperity. It creates an order that
doii^a ol treat uiuuftirie*. Auy per- i in fieif-desuucUvo.
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