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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
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THE GOOD NAME OF OKLAHOMA
, The sudden and unheralded appearance of Governor Rob-
r.ertson at Okmulgee yesterday morning where the grand jury^
r'lwas investigating certain irregularities connected with 'ik
(failure of the Hank of Commerce, displays remarkable zeal
.son the part of His Excellency, but whether to discover the
• ' truth, or suppress it, we are at a loss to know.
I: The attitude of tne governor hertofore when the name
P'facts were aired by a legislative committee would indicate
V that it is the truth, and the otlirial publication of the truth
in the form of an indictment, which the governor fears, and
Inow as then, he is moving with all the skill of the astute poli-
tician, backed by the otticial power which unfortunately was
^conferred on him by the people, to suppress the information
which the people are entitled to have.
J Governor Robertson is now deeply concerned, as he avers
hfabout the deep disgrace which will tail on the fair name of
f Oklahoma it its chief executive is indicted. He seems to have
L'needed much time to arrive at this conclusion. By the narrow
t 'margin of one vote—and that vote obtained under the most
In desperate and tragic circumstances—he escaped indictment
L'by the House of Representatives during its last session. That
reindictment—or impeachment—would, if it had been presented
■ to the Senate and the governor brought to trial before a
■c >ody of his own political faith, have disclosed all the truth in
It .connection with the questionable acts in which the governor
Trwas aHeged to be involved, establishing either his guilt or in-
Lnocence.
But having prevented his impeachment, as he now seeks,
Mas it appears, to prevent his indictment, the governor has
P aeen satisfied to keep his mouth shut respecting the grave
charges which were made by the House of Representatives.
J To 4 is good day lie h*as failed to explain the discrepancy
[jaetween his income tax returns and his bank deposits, and
' likewise he has 1'i.iled to explain how he happened to be a
. jeneficiary in the deal whereby a failing bank received certain
■ jtate money, he receiving one-third of the money that Dennis
L ?ot. If Governor Robertson is innocent of these ehurges why
J! doesn't he say so? It is only when his official hide stands a
|r:hance of -going to the tannery that he opens his mouth, and
V then not in the direction of helping to discover the ttuth, but
for the puropse of covering it up.
His demand that he be permitted to appear as a witness
[•before the grand jury at Okmulgee, his effort to discredit the
,;];:ounty attorney of that county, his refusal to accept the rts-
Ifignation of a judge, his own, appointee, who has shown himself
Ic.incapable of the duties which were imposed by law, and last,
|i but not least, his hypocritical concern about the fair name of
the state he has repeatedly dishonored, shows him to be a
.iman utterly unworthy of the high office he holds and that the
fctonly decent and appropriate thing he could do would be to
lliresign.
LYING ABOUT THE MINERS
HOW IT WOULD WORK
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MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS!
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"" tjuestion.
My father's address!
At this request from the lips of
the mysterious foreigner who had
come to my aid upon the delayed und
darkened train, and who said that he
was a friend of my father's, i iiu
voluntarily stiffened into suspicion
seated near him laughed perfunc-
torily. The voice of the little girl
whose mother was keeping her occu-
pied with wagers on the starting of
the train carroled triumphantly:
"That's another penny you owe me,
^mother," und the mysterious
>Hieigner smiled benignly at me.
"The wonderful alertness of a
even though his request on the face , child, he said. "Which reminds me.
of it appeared to be only a ruse to Your own little one is well after his
divert the curious attention of the terrible experience of the spring?"
passengers in the car. \ery well, indeed. I returned.
Hut I was on guard definitely. I ! ;ind my suspicious wonder increased,
wondered if perchance his presence ^be ,min knew and had filed in his
on the same train with me was a de- memory altogether too many facts
liberate!? planned thing, in order to ah°ut m® t°r l*|e alien stranger he
become possessed of that carefully ' himself to be.
eunideri incmt thp :niHrr K« hv whirh Pardon me, l can guess that you
do not wish to talk about so terrible
happening." he went on, and ray
TODAY
ARTHUR BRISBANE
With a coal strike impending, it is one of the regular
'"duties" of the editorial writers and cartoonists of the capi-
talist press to make it appear that the high price of coal is
due to the wages now paid to the coal miners.
This is a lie manufactured out of the whole cloth.
A reduction of ten per cent in wages—even if the reduc-
. i.ion were deducted 'rom the price of coal, which it would
■ not be—would not lessen the enormous price of a ton of coal
:more than from '25 to BO cents.
The big price of coal is due to profiteering, to the private
'^ownership of coal mines, and the railroads and coal dealers.
All along the line, big profits are taken—first by the
owners of the mines, then by the railroads, then by the c«al
^dealers. If all of these profits could be eliminated, the
■price could certainly be cut at least in half.
If the wages of the miners were reduced, the reduction
would not cause the price of coal to go down. It would
Imerely enable the private monopolists to put into their own
'purses a still larger profit. It would also reduce the pur-
chasing power of the miners and thus tend to cause the in-
dustrial depression to continue longer.
I All this causes us to wish that the miners, if they strike,
would strike for the public ownership and the democratic man-
agement of the coal industry—thus gaining the sympathy of
all that part of the public which understands that it would
be benefited by the abolition of private monoply in coal..
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Wise Lloyd George.
Lloyd George, ablest man in Eu-
rope, gets things done. He knows,
ahead of others, including our
"statesmen," that this nation won't
allow itself to be mixed up perma-
nently in Europe's affairs, or made
International paymaster of the
world.
So he swiftly arranges to have
Europe attend to her own affairs,
by arranging a truce, not for ten.
but for twenty years, with Germany
in it, and the only real feasible eco-
nomy—peace Instead of bloodshed.
Timid Americans will shudder at
being left out of this arrangement.
WHY should we be in? We do not
..ght, if people let us alone.
The Conscience Fund.
In 1811. when Madison was presi-
dent, some one anonymously sent $5 j
to the government, saying he owned j
that to the nation. It1 was booked I
under the words "Conscience Fund.''
Every year since then, excepting two I
years, something has been added to |
the fund. It amounts now to $541,-1
528.59.
How much would it amount to If
all those that profiteered at the ex-
pense of government and the peo-
ple had sent in ten per cent of their
stealings? That sum would easily
pay the soldiers their bonus.
Marj *nd the I rab.
In her wedding service the Prin- i
cess Mary included the old-fashioned
promise to obey. Hut later, when she '
and her husband go out the tall man
with the silk calves: will announce: I
"Her Royal Highness," and her hus-
band's name will be mentioned as a
I poor second.
I Everywhere and in everything he
I will be the small end of the combina-
tion. There is nothing in nature to
i be compared with that couple except
the giant deep-sea crab called "para-
site crab." She carries her husband,
as big as a dime, safely tucked away
under her front slipper and there he
lives contented.
Ininial Parents.
A boy of 19, Walter btddle, was
out of work and had quarreled with
his wife. To avenge himself on her
and fate he deliberately drowned his
7-month-old baby in the bath tub,
preparing first a pillow In the water.
| that it might drown cpmfortably.
i Horrible, but a reversion to ani-
! malism, in which such things are the
| rule, not horrible exceptions.
| The lioness hides the new-born
I cubs from her mate. He will kill and
ejft them, annoyed at her devotion to
them.
j The sow. if improperly fed. will
eat her own farrow devouring the
little pigs to get protein- to supply
milk for those that can no longer most critical moment of their mar-
drink It. 1 fled life. Read of that in Fabre. It's
On the other hand, the scorpion al- ' * strange world and we have, as yet,
lows her young ones to devour her no what It Is all about.
body, as they cling to her while she ~
crawls, more and more feebly, in the Iaimers and Bunkers,
sunlight. And the praying mantis, j If you are a farmer, you are one
female of hideous mien, calmly eats i kind of an insect. If you are an
the brain of her husband, at the 1 eminently respectable financier, you
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright, 1921, Tta. Bell 3yndlc t . Inc.)
are another. The bill that permits
farmers to co-operate in selling their,
products says: "Dividends on stock'
of membership must not exceed 8
per cent per annum."
If you ask "why?" you are told
that government gives special per-
mission and has the right to regu-
late. What .about national banks,
that also operate by special permis-
sion of government, Issuing currency
against government bonds? Many of
them have paid 25 per cent dividends
and more.
THE FAINT HEART
Half a dozen blackbuhds
In de apple /tree,
Jes' about ernough to make
A pie fo' me.
Go an' git de musket
Oil ue pantry hook.
Fix de fat an' flour
Ready fo' to cook.
Amble thoo de orchard,
Stickin' near de ground,
IJlackbuhd he ain't stay dere
Ef I makes a sound.
Gittin' nigh en nigher,
Quiet as er ghost.
Buhds is busy talkin'
En 1 comes right clost.
Musket to mah shoulder
Pointin' towahd de sky,
Golly goodness gracious!
I kin taste dat pie!
Blackbuhds cock dey haids up,
Lookin' Thighty cute,
Right laik pickaninnies,
En I jes' caint shoot!
Home I goes to dinner
Feelin' soht o' beat,
A mess o' fat an' flouh
All I got to eat.
Blackbuhds know dis nigger
Got er chicken heaht:
Glnrv goodness, mister.
But dem fowls am smaht!
Poor Girl.
Ada Friedman, poor girl, having
attended a wedding, made up her
mind that she would never be mar-
ried. and. dreading to be an old
maid, swallowed bichloride of mer-
cury to kill herself.
This is>jiot the impulse of au in-
dividual girl. It is the expression
of nature's power, the unfortunate
[outcropping of intense determina-!
tion to obey nature's law, and carry
on the human race.
Great pity, if such a girl dies. Her
children would have been valuable.
Tom Watson.
Use your words carefully, always,
and never forget what Tom Watson
of Georgia gave as a recipe for good
public speaking. "Remember that it
is impossible to exaggerate the stu-
pidity of the public."
This column referred to Lincoln
as a "sincere democrat." A friendly
reader says: "I like your stuff most
of the time. But I want you to know
Lincoln was no Democrat. He was
a stanch Republican, as I am."
guarded secret, the address by which
my father might be reached by me—
only in the gravest emergency—
when he was engaged in his secret
trips for the government.
Not that I needed to be on guard J
against giving up that secret. g\
could not imaK)ne any combination
of circumstances which would per-
mit that information to pass my lips
to any one save another accredited
agent of the government, like Lillian
or Allen Drake. But the request
made me suspect the motives of the
man who had asked it. and revived
again the uneasy feeling I had had
concerning him ever since his en-
trance into the train.
I let no hint of my alarm escape
me. however. Fortunately, l had in
my memory an address in Washing-
ton v Mch always had been my fa-
ther's ostensible headquarters, and I
dictated it, slowly, painstakingly.
"You will find him there,"I said,
"or if he is not there, any message
you leave will promptly forwarded
to him."
He wrote it down as if much de-
pended upon the, accuracy of his
transcription, though he looked at
me and I felt as though the eyes be-
hind the thick lenses were ginileting
my pretense. And 1 was sure I wfts
not mistaken as to the sardonic little
quirk lo the mustached lips.
. Ma (lire's Suspicion Grows.
I "My felicitations to your father,
Mme. Graham," he murmured. "You
are as discreet as you are quick-
I witted. But, listen—the train is mov-
I ing!"
It was indeed true, and for a few
I seconds I forgot my disturbing re-
flections concerning the mysterious
foreigner in the joyous anticipation
of being carried out of the terrify-
ing tunnel. But it was a short-lived
hope, for the train lumbered groan-
ingly along for a few feet, then
stopped, while the motor gave a few
discouraging thumps and also ceased
functioning.
j "Died at first!" A man near the
I front of the car chuckled appreci-
j atively at his own gibe, and the men
mind fastened mechanically upon the
distinctly American "guess," and as
mechanically filed it away for future
consideration, "but I have—grand-
children—of my owjn"—did I imagine
it, or was there another amused lit-
tle quirk to the lips beneath that
white mustache, "and Jiaturally, hor-
ror seizes me at anj" mention of a
kidnaping. And when I read the ac-
count of the outrage upon my old
friend's grandson—I was in South
America at the time, and the papers
reached me after the whole thing
was t>ver—I was terribly shocked,
and I always have been curious
about it. The papers said that the
man who did it was killed, and his
accomplice received a long prison
sentence, while there was mention
of a woman who escaped. But her
identity was not revealed I have
wondered often—tell me—was she
not the guiding spirit in the affair?"
"If Only—w
% There wa* something inscrutable
in his voice, which had hardened
perceptibly as he talked. It was al-
most as if he had personal antagon-
ism toward the miscreants who had
taken my boy. And there was an
almost manevolent eagerness in his
last question.
But not with this stranger could
I discuss that terrible blasting epi-
sode which has shattred my health
and nerves for so long.
"I have reason to believe so," I
answered. "But you will pardon me.
I cannot refer to that time. It is too
—horrible."
"Oh!" he exclaimed contritely. "A
thousand pardons! I will not offend
again. It must has been indeed hor-
rible for you. Tf only—"
He shut his lips quickly as if he
had been betrayed into saying some-
thing he had not meant to utter.
And again the conviction forced
itself upon me that if I could only
pierce the mystery of those thick-
lensed glasses I would make a
I startling discovery.
CO-OPERATION
western co-operative congress
"GREAT-HEART."
Welcome every morning
Like a rose of June; •
With a heart for singing,
Sing a merry tune.
Yesterday is dream-land.
Dreams come true, today
And remember with December
Bide the blooms of May!
"Ah!" quotes one. the skeptic,
"Very fine to tell.
Since the smile of fortune 4
Favors you so well;
From your cheerful chatter
Plain it is to see-
You have never battled
With adversity!"
Friend, my constant neighbor
All along the roi^le
Was the slant Danger
With his brother. Doubt;
While the wolftfeh specter,
Terror of the poor.
Was my boon companion—
Failing of a doqf*!
Still, the rosy morning
Is the rose of June.
And I greet it singing
Such a merry tune;
Yesterday is nothing,
Vivid is today—
I remember with December
Bide the blooms of •May!
—L. A. Osborne.
All-American Co-operative Commission.
Several hundred representative farmers from all sections
of Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minne-
sota, and Wisconsin gathered in an American Co-operators'
Congress at Des Moines, February 14 to 16, to form a closer
union between the farmers' co-operative societies of the west-
ern states and to promote greater efficiency by extending
mutual aid whenever possible. The delegates at the congress
represented the Farmers' Union, the- American Society of
Equity, Equity Co-operative Exchange, the Missouri Farm
Clubs, and progressive farm bureau federations. A remarkable
spirit of unity and true co-operation pervaded all the sessions
of the congress.
The main interest of the congress lay in a solution of the
farmers' credit needs by means of co-operative banking. Dr.
Frederic C. Howe, the efninent authority on co-operative credits
and people's banks, addressed the congress and later conferred
with farm and labor leaders, who are eager to inaugurate a
producers' co-operative bank in Des Moines. The congress
adopted a resolution pledging its co-operation to the national
program of the All American Co-operative Commission, and
made plans for a similar congress to be held next year.
THOUGHT UK IIAII ES( \PK[).
At a certain university one of the
lecturers visiting the college was a
professor whose name happened to
be Walter Raleigh.
"A student was deputed to meet the
great man at the railway statio^
This student did not know the pro-
fessor by sight, but, walking up to a
man he thought looked like him, he
said:
"l beg your "pardon, but am I ad-
dressing Walter Raleigh?"
The man looked at him a moment,
and, thinking he must be mad, re-
plied:
"No. I am Christopher Columbus.
Walter ltaleigh Is in the waiting
room with Queen Elizabeth."—An-
swers. London.
HIP! HIP! Ill KlfAY!
"Hip! Hip! "
"Got anything on it'."'
"Yea."
"Hurray!
Journal.
Louisville courier-
A MFFHTI/r FEAT.
"Solomon," says Uncle Eben, "was
a wise man. He had to be in order
to have so many domestic complica-
tions an' keep out'n de divorce coht.''
—Washington Star.
EVIDENT.
Ted—Is Tom henpecked?
Ned Judge for yourself. His wi/a
went to the barber's and left instruc-
tions as to how his hair is to be cut.
—New York Sun.
to save 10,000 lives a year
Bertrand Sbadwell, in The Nation.
It is estimated on reliable authority that 15,000 persons
were killed outright in the United tates in 1921 by automobile
I [accidents. The number of persons crippled for life, if ascer-
I (tamed, would probably be appalling. The majority of these
(accidents were caused by persons driving with excessive speed.
I It is the obvious and acknowledged duty of a government
ito protect the lives of its citizens; and protection could he
easily given, in this instance, by reducing the speed with which
automobiles could be driven. Penalties for speeding have been
tried and have failed. I propose, therefore, that speeding should
tie made impossible. This could be done, and, I believe, at least
110,000 lives a year could be saved, by passing a law that no
Ijautomobile should be manufactured or sold for use upon the
public roads which was capable of traveling at a greater speed
li than lo miles an hour. This would be faster than a pair of
It thoroughbred carriage horses can trot; and would be quite fast
l| enough for all purposes of pleasure. Exceptions might be made
|< for fire brigades and, possibly, lor ambulances.
KRAZY KAT — There and Back.
—Iti, HERMMAN
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