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OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every day except Sunday by The Oklahoma Leader Co.
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PROPAGANDISTS AT WORK
i Eastern newspapers are loading tlieir columns with mis-
ji'nformation relative to the coal situation. I hey are culti-
(th |«|ating the propaganda field — preparing the minds ol the
i - *i')ublic for the big struggle in which the profiteers will be
' 'rjirrayed against the starving and underpaid coal miners. By
, \pril 1, when the struggle will begin, they hope to have the
1 jhbeople of this country thoroughly angry with the men, so that
! ujin insistont and almost uranimous cry will go up from every
• 'bfiuarter that they must accept a further reduction in wages.
. '< | Before us lies a full column argument from the Wash-
'! ington Bureau of the New York Herald. It says the miners'
liverage earnings are now $120 per month and that one year
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THE OPEN SHOP FOX AM) THE UNION ROOSTER
Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln was mistaken, when he
wrote to A. G. Henry, iu 18^8: "I
now nink out of view and shall be
forgotten." Most briefly put. what
Is the secret of his su«ress? He
knew how to transform knowledge
and wisdom. To understand the dif-
ference is the beginning of wisdom.
Thomas V. I.dlson.
Thomas A. Edison is seventy-five
years old and still working. He is
the moat distinguished citizen of this
republic- ami that is something lu u
nation of 100.000,000. The world j
knows vvhat he is. You could see it ,
when Foch met Edison at Judge •
Gary's big dinner. In the parado
past the French marshal everybody
was perfunctorily Introduced and a*
petfunctorlly greeted. Fifty or a'
hundred time mUlionalrcs, ^reat in- '
dusti la lists, newspaper owners, most
important in their own opinion all
looked alike and all looked like
nothing to Foch. Edition's na/ne
pronounced in the usu;
no Impression. But
peated it. with a fine French accent.
as follows: "Aydeesong, clest le • of men that squandered billions in symptoms of cancer for three years
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MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS|
Adele Garris'jn'i New Phase of
1 Revelations of a Wife
CMHMM. Ittl. IW la.
The Accusation Mrs. Harrison -Made.j Her face was flushed and her eyei
Lillian's poise wud proof even llKl<i an u''/
against Elizabeth Hairlsou's last ill-
A fox once decided that it was time for him to eat a rooster. He picked him, he put
him on the fire, and when he thought he had him done to a turn he sat down to enjoy his
usual way made i meal. Just as he was about to caire him, the rooster rose up to his full height, and shaking
.ludt-e <;ary re- j the hot gravy from his hot comb said, "Say, Fox, what's your hurry?"
, j, nn m.„iL j* t-nmnarpd thp p'irniiw< urand Aydeesonn, Monsieur le Mare wartime ship building, with
. tgo they averaged $ -J ' - , jChnle. "Ah, e'eat lo grand Edtnon!", "superior knowledge and Indiv
• ' Sf the steel workers of one year ago, which were 51j4 per unclaimed the marshal as excited as enterprise."
their
nd individual
nonth, and have now been reduced to $90 per month, with
'.he wages the miners are receiving, and insists that the
]niners ought to be reduced in the same proportion. Some
ihowing that!
1 What this industrious propagandist tries to put over, and
'!°Uoes, is the declaration, though he does it by inference, that
'6 ,UJhe coal miner earns, upon an average, $1,440 per year. What
,h | lie does not want his readers to know, and therefore attempts
ill',.
h!
though you said "This is Christopher
Columbus." This evening, raise
your convivial glass of water—and
drink to Edison, the American that
the world knows.
An Old Idea.
Branding is an old idea. In the
middle ages In Englund strikes and
such things were forbidden of course.
What Is more, it was against the law .... , , .
for a miserable creature lacking Prs i,ml surrounding tissue which
work in his own parish to wander I« not bombarded gets the upper
after radium treatment.
The radium theory is simple
enough.
Cancerous growth thrives, grows
at the expense of weaker surround-
ing tissues. Radium, applied to the
cancerous substance, bombarding it
with billions of destructive particles
of matter, weakens its force. ItwTth-
i hand. Possibilities are limited. be-
Any workman caught wandering in
search of a job away from his own j reach,
parish was branded on the cheek J
with a red hot Iron. That probably
: doubted ly hurried on the da;
Cheapening Life.
ct, It un-
ys of la-
i an old woman whose son was recent-
ho Killed Taylor I
Those that need the lesson will
learn from reporters of the Taylor 0ff
Cinema murder that it doesn't pay
to have too many young ladles wrlt-
|B||[M . Ing you letters, ending with nine
in 1 n i0 conceal, is that they did not earn half that. Coarse stuff,1 small crosses and one big cross,
, j Amusing w^'ig "
^ you know. | last long
While the steel workers have been reduced $GI, the milHT.s After the bulldog had torn out the bor unionism. hy arrested for murder.
th,0'!iave been reduced $62, but these figures are given for TIME !Parrot s feathers that hird ,a1d: "| You can stop crime by changing / imo Ui0 a and
^lave uccn icuutcu yv*, wu«, e, , know v-Uat s the matter with me 1 . conditions, as you diminish Igno-
c0 ' WORKED. We have no data respecting the time worked by | talk too much," ranee by increasing education.
Steel millS' bUt ™ d° hr.plenty;f informati°n reSP«ct- I Tay 1 or^k111 Uig"whnT ToS ! Killing l ancer.
ng the idleness of the coal mines and we know that during mnt(or wjtll ^em. Dr. James t. < ase, a scientific man
wl °lv.e DaBt year the American coal miner HAS NOT WORKED: It is a mystery to delight detec- Northwestern university, reports
ue yant jiai * lives [encouraging results in the fight
> jJALF TIME, which automatically reduces the earnings ol | ,rhe ia done witll n bullet "gainst cancer, with radium. No
Ifi'lhiB craft, the most dangerous, and yet the most necessary fifteen years old Therefore the per- cure surely a cure until five years
;,nd basic of all other trades, to the pitiful sum of $00 a that killed did not often use flre-
if V<nonth, or $720 per year, about one-third the sum required j'
Little details that go with the
hi ^,4o keen a family of five in comfort and decency. Turn on shooting of elderly men, pink kimon-
Ut fo Keep tt 9 us. Silk nightshirts, called ••nighties",
i by the reporters, etc.. were not miss-
[ing. They figured also in the Elwell
case.
thnF;,
ht to,he I.iBht!
le.
have passed.
But many cases, originally de-
clared hopeless, have shown no
"Taking
teaching
them it is all right to kill other boys
is a bad thing."
After every great war crime of
all kinds increases. For war makes
It clear that killing Is simple, easy,
a quick way to solve problems or
g«-t what you want.
That Idea as to the advisability of
killing can be rooted out by educa-
tion, kindness and especially OP-
PORTUNITY.
Student Essayists:
Lilort
More Truth Than Poetry
The Poor Fish
For the best essay on
"What Mmuld America Do With
Her Surplus Products"
the Poor Fish suggests:
Limit and regulate production so
that it will equal the approximate
needs of the people.
tempered dig concerning Marion's
acrobatic triumph over the Harrison
children.
"Must you go?" she said sweetly,
ri ing. "But of course 1 realize that
this must be monotonous for you.
Was there the slightest stress upon
the final pronoun? I could not tell,
but 1 saw by the deepening flush up-
on my sister-in-law's cheek that Lil-
lian's feminine rapier thrust had
penetrated her defenses. Her voice,
however, was as saccharine as ever
as she made her couuter thrust.
"A child's performances cannot
help being monotonous to everyone
except the mother, don't you think .'"
•he smiled, anil drifted out of the
room- she had reached the door as
she finished speaking before Lillian
eould have answered her even if she
had wished to do so.
'That woman will burst before
night if she doesn't get a chance to
vent that suppressed venom on some-
body. Lillian commented when the
door had closed upon Mrs. Harrison.
"I wouldn't be In Mary's shoes. ' I
said, "if her mother, iu her present
mood, finds out about that oriental
necklace."
"Neither would I," Lillian re-
turned, "but I'll bank on Mary. , Ob-
serve, if you please."
Mary *as gating intently toward
our window. Then her voice floated
up to us.
"Where's mother, Aunt Margaret?"
she queried.
"She Is a Thief."
"I think she went to her room," I
returned.
"You're aure she isn't at the front of
the house?"
"No, dear."
'All right." She threw herself in-
to a dance posture, gradually wrig-
"I have found out the reason why
your maid left so suddenly and mys-
teriously, Margaret," she said nastily.
"She is a thief. My Oriental neck-
lace is gone, has been stolen, and, of
course, she has taken it."
For an instant 1 saw red, and I am
afraid I was perilously near to
blurting out the truth to her, betray-
ing poor, naughty, little Mary to her
mother's wrath. Then the habit of
years, and the laws of hospitality to
which I have always done reference,
steadied me, and I replied quietly:
"I am sure you are mistaken,
Elizabeth. Katie has been with me
for years, and while she is meddle-
some, she is absolutely honest. I
will help you hunt for the necklace,
;ind I am sure you will find it some-
where about the place. You may
have dropped it"
"Are you insuating that I have be-
come feeble-minded, Margaret?"
Elizabeth's manner was magnificent-
ly contemptuous. "I am not in the
habit of dropping my jewels"—her
manner suggested a large and valu-
able collection—"and I distinctly re-
member locking this into my case
before Katie left. I have not taken it
out since."
"You keep your keys where any-
one could have access to them?" I
inquired smoothly.
By a certain startled look in her
eyes I knew as well as if she had
spoken that something had occurred
to her which quashed her theory of
Katie's guilt. .But she is the type of
woman who never recedes from a
position once she has taken it.
"I keep them where no .one but
a clever theif could find them," she
retorted, then added querulously:
"But, of course, I'll make a thorough
search for them. You do not object
gled over to the place where she had i if I go Into all the rooms, do you
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MILLIONS DIE IN RUSSIA
Hovle Funeral.
More Interesting than the killing
by some drug-crazed woman or
jealous man is the psychological
study involved In the dead man's |
funeral a Japanese movie actor !
standing rigid throughout, an officer
with raised sword standing by the
coffin, the corpse dressed in a mili-
tary uniform, t'anadian sohners as a i
guard of honor. Scotch musicians in
their kilts.
It was cbmplete as a movie mur-
der and a movie funeral.
Foolishness blames the moving
picture industry for the folly of a
few Individuals. You see in film-
land what has been seen a thousand
times sudden wealth going to the
ce ' The Leader is in receipt of many inquiries about how help
pi,, may be extended to Russia where millions of people have died,
if ir nd many more will die before the winter is over, as a result
.° f a famine which spreads over an area almost as large as
pi " he territory of the United States.
IB • We appreciate how limited your means of extending aid
w ,j, the many appeals made to you for help in this great un-
p mployment and deflation period. We know that prices ol'
arm products are the bottom, that industry is at a standstill,
,hat many strikes and lockouts prevail, and prospects for
he future are by no means bright.
<)r But while we are poor in this country, so far we have
'scaped starvation, and death from starvation is a long way hends of unbalanced men and women|
nhl,ff. In Russia millions of innocent women and children are j "^rlvlncJ*.mto jr.iljr.j, worse,
hi .^perishing because they have no bread. No one is to blame
'or this frightful condition. There has been no rain. The
si ertile farms would not produce without moisture and there
tfc vas none.
m The Friends of Soviet Russia is an America norganiaztion
— mgaged in collecting money, food, grain, clothes, medicines
r —anything that will tend toward the relief of the dying ntil-
! t ions, and if you feel able to help with the good work this
1 -"iplendid organization is doing, send them any cash contri-
jution you may wish to make and ask them how you may
; further help in the work they are doing. Address Friends
jf Soviet Russia, 201 West Thirteenth street, New York City.
By James J. Montague
(Coprrliht.l 21,The Bell Syndicate. Ine.)
'Why Do We Say"
deposited the necklace, made a swift
swoop and picked something up, con-
cealing It In her robe and floated off
again into the center of the impro-
vised ring. There she stopped and
called to Marion, who was industri-
ously turning another series of hand-
springs as a finale to her part of the
program.
"This will be the finish of the first
part of the entertainment." she an-
nounced importantly. "Now come
around to the side of the house while
we get up that Wild West show.
Come along, Jerry."
She led the way around the side of
the house, while Lillian and I smiled
at each other over her bustling air.
the cheer up man
•TOOK AS JOBF/S TI RKKYT
To be "as poor as Jobe's Turkey ,lc
is to have arrived at the extreme of | But both smiles were tempered with
poverty. This expression has lived regret for the unlovely characteris-
through the years despite the fact tic which we had seen displayed by
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WHAT OTHERS SAY
on them that had nothing. With
$500,000 Income, they try to buy
what they conceive to be $600,00O
worth of excitement and pleasun
There is not that much, of a legiti-
mate. harmless kind, for sale es-
pecially not for an uneducated mind, j
Drink, drugs. Immorality, and finally |
tragedy crop up here and there. But '
to denounce the moving pictures. •
greatest teacher of men. is as foolish
as it would be to denounce the print-
ing press, because an occasional
printer gets drunk or an editor here
and there shoots his competitor.
IT IS OUR BUSINESS
St Louis Labor.
"An intelligent participation in all matters ol government
on the side of every man and every woman in the nation, is
jur sole guarantee of democracy in government."—Exchange.
In other words, democracy as well as liberty means first
of all responsibility. We cannot allow others to do with gov-
ernment what they please; we cannot afford to place the powers
of state and society into the hands of a privileged class or a
sang of politicians, and then expect to reap the blessings of
democracy.
We must learn to understand that this is our land, that its
government is our government, that the democracy we are talk- war.
Shocking. But True.
The Reverend Dr. Straton will
fight all teachings of Darwinian the- I
ory in schools.
The doctor was disturbed "when |
my own son, a high school boy. came I
home with figures about the antiqul
ty of man." Dr. Straton knows how
other good men felt years ago when
their boys came home with theories
about the earth being round. It is
shocking at first, but you get used to
it.
Merchant Marine.
President Harding, very wisely, in-
sists that the navy personnel be kept
up. Officers especially, and trained
gunners, should be kept on the na-
tional payroll and up to date.
All that could be done on our mer-
cantile marine. If we had one.
The government ought to own and
manage It. keeping a constant sup-
ply of officers and men in case of
log about is our democracy, and that it is our duty to take care
f of whatever belongs to us.
^ No sane man neglects his own property. No sane man
j,-, thinks of allowing other«*to dispose of his possessions as they
01 may see fit. No sane man allows others to become the masters
°< of his own goods.
Let us take care of our political property, let lis look out
i'r lor our own political interests, let us attend to the things that
n concern us.
The hirelings whom we allowed to run the government did
not run it in our interests and never will. Their sympathies
i, are all on the other side, not only because they themselves be-
e long to the other side, but because the other side has at its
* command means of "persuasion" which the common people do
h not possess.
We must cease to place our interests into hands which have
j lieen soiled by the dirty business they have been engaged in
li, jor so many years. We must be our own representatives and
• or act on our own responsibility.
"•th If we cannot do so, if we lack the intelligence to do so,
Jer'or the moral backbone, then there is m> help for us and we
,'el owe thanks to the gentry that is accommodating enough to
jea fool us and deceive us and hoodwink us and bamboozle us and
lie to us and abuse ua iu out' own name and at out' own expense.
But they say the nation is not in-
telligent enough to manage a great
mercantile navy THEY nre the type
You waken in the grip of flu
Your pulses throb and jerk;
Your funds are low; your rent is due
You can't get down to work.
A headache makes you want to yell,
Your tongue is white and furry.
A friend drops in and says "Well! Well!
It will not do to worry!"
You slip and break your collar bone
And bruise your blessed head,
And think with a despairing moan
Of six long weeks in bed.
Your friend comes up. and says "Old Scout,
No virtue in repining;
Although you're down you're never out;
So seek the silver lining."
The girl you thought was fond and true
(Such incidents occur)
Decides that she can't marry you
And weds her dad's chauffeur.
Your friend observes "Cheer up, old chap,
No cause at all for sorrow!
ft all is for the best, mayhap;
So better luck tomorrow!"
As long as his luck isn't bad
And he is safe and sound,
Ilis friends can count upon this lad
To scatter sunbeams 'round*.
His optimism is sublime;
The noblest instincts fill him;
In spite of which, you mean some time
To take an axe and kill him.
that it is partly erroneous.
i Jobe, when delivered by God into
: the hands of Satan, was reduced to
n deplorable state and according to
i ihe legend, his "turkey" had but a
j single feather In its tail and was so
weak that it had to lean against the
fence to gather enough strength to
! gobble.
i The turkey was hardly known In
■ biblical times and even today cannot
| be found in the region where Jibe's
; homestead is supposed to have been
located. So it was perhaps some
other sort of fowl the poor man
owned.
j There was a time when the expres-
j slon was heard far more frequently
; than it is now. That was in the days
when JUtige Hallbuter of Nova
ScoUa, wrote his famous humorous
! stories under the non-de-plume "Sam
Slick" and his reference to Jobe's
turkey was so frequent that the ani-
mal became as well known in every-
day language as Brer Rabhltt and
other heroes of animal fiction.
YiHT THE PEOPLE HAVE
FAILED.
The secret of this falure, in
my opinion, lies chiefly in the
fact that the people as a whole
have been unable to comprehend
what the powers of wealth
learned long ago. These monop.
niles and exploiters discovered
that the road to economic profit
and power was through the con-
trol of government.
The* knew that a man ma?
labor all his life with his hand*,
or his brniiis and haTe less at the
end of his life of industry and
frugality than he had at the be-
ginning: lint they learned that
by the a.se 01 the government, the
use of the state to create special
privileges, wealth beyond
measure can be amassed within
a lew years.
For that purpose they have
always been zealous to secure
and maintain control of the ma-
chinery of government—control
of the presidency, control of the
I nlted States senate^ control of
the house of representatives, con-
trol of cabinet appointments.—
l.aFollette.
Mary Harrison.
"Margaret! Margaret!"
Elizabeth Harrison's voice, rau-
cous. excited, came to us from down
the hall, and'a second later she had
appeared at the door of the room
again. For the first time I saw her
shorn of her provoking composure.
Katie may have become frightened
and have hidden it, or, of course,
there is a possibility that some child
may have meddled."
She was looking straight at Lil-
lian as she spoke, but my friend
smiled at her as if she had just ut-
tered the most amusing jest in the
world. *
"Pray take my room first, Madge."
she said carelessly, turning to the
window and seating herself In a big
armchair. And while Elizabeth
turned over everything rudely, she
watched her with a quiet smiyng
amusement which I guessed was
driving my sister-in-law wild. We
went on, Elizabeth and I, to the
other rooms, and searched them
thoroughly. Finally, my sister-in-
law said decisively:
"It's no use. Margaret, either Katie
has it or that Marion has taken it
out to play with - what's that?
From the yard had come an ear-
piercing shriek—Marion's voice:
"Mother! Oh, Mother. Quick-
quick—quick!"
THE WORLD IS GROWING BETTER
O. E. ENFIELD.
I don't" share the notion that the
world is growing worse.
That day by day and hour by hour
we merit heaven's curse.
That there Is sin and woe and shame,
quite freely I admit.
But that we're growing worse than
grandsires were I don't believe a
bit;
When old folks tell of good old days
from sin and sorrow free.
Somehow a little doubt is born with-
in the soul of me;
I've never had much time to search
the chonicles of old
But some few tales that I have
gleaned would make your blood
run cold.
The tales I've read of pirates, of
bandits and of gods
Have got the wicked men I know
outclassed by any odds.
The trouble is with those who say
we're going to the bad
They judge all men of earth by some
unworthy lad,
Their little souls grow bitter, they
.vent unholy spleen,
And just because we make mistakes
they call us vile ana mean;
Now I don't look for perfect men—
for men without a flaw
For we are creatures moj-e of chance
than creatures of a law,
Hence, when some fellow steps aside
from moral rectitude,
I like to hide his evilness and leave
his virtues nude.
I know that I'M imperfect and that
my fellows are
But should a single sinful act a life
of goodness mar?
No, a thousand times! I say and
hearts that understand
Will give to those who need it a firm
and friendly hand,
For this old world of ours, about
whose sins some mortals roar,
Is even better now today that at any
time before,
And ere I lay this theme aside 'tis
pleasant work to say
I think the world tomorrow will be
better than .today!
ADDING MACHINE NEEDED.
He—How long have you been en-
gaged?
She—This time or all together?—
Lord Jeff.
ESPECIALLY BLl E.
The blue and the gray—a woman
with her first white hair.—Boston
Transcript.
BETTER THAN THAYER
One hour spent in the execution
of social justice, is worth 70 hours
of prayer.—John Ruskin.
CORRECT PHYSICS.
Teacher—Johnnie, what is steam?
Johnnie—Water gone crazy with
the heat.
li ke xix.
Somewhere in Omaha there is a
man who sees through the capitalist
press.
lie sent to Lord Riddell, who had
charge of the British newspaper ar-
rangements for the/Washington con-
ference, a postcard with the simple
inscription, "Luke xix, 3."
The verse was turned up. It
proved to refer to Zaccheus climbing
the sycamore tree to get a better
view.
"And he sought to see Jesus who
he was and could not for the press
* * —London Labor News.
KRAZY KAT— Called and Found Not Wanted.
Jack—How did Johnson die?
Torn—He kicked a mule and the
mule returned^ the^ compliment.
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