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9.623
READERS
THIS WEEK
The Oklahoma Leader
SUCCESSOR TO OTTER VALLEY SOCIALIST, SNYDER, OKLAHOMA.
NOW LET I S
REACH
15,000
No. 35—Vol. 5.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1919.
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Weekly.
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CURRENT TOPICS
Discussed by
OSCAR A ME RINGER
The Y. M. C. A., the darling
boy of capita' n. is again j
brought in the li f. light. James
H. Powers, a si \ eant in the;
American exped 5 >nary force/
has a few things | > say about!
it in the last issu \ if The New!
Republic. Here a * a few sam-|
pies: '{•
"The ambulance 2-ime to the!
Dressing Station. •« earby an-
other vehicle had nrawn up. Caroline Lowe, Chicago Attor- j
The walking wounded were filt-j
ered back to the little ruined |
hut, where the Red Cross flag!
hung limp under the rain. The!
other vehicle contained a Y. M. |
C. A. man, and he had a load lyiAWY
of cigarettes, chocolate, candy, |
etc. He set up shop and got
ready for business. Some
doughboys paused on their way
to the rear and their faces
lighted up. Something to eat,
and to smoke! One asked for
some cigarettes. The 'Y' man
handed them out. 'They'll cost
you .' He named the price.
The soldier looked at the 'Y'
man a minute. 'Hell, we were
UNLOCK THAT DOOR
ney. Obtains Order Follow-
ing Day of Activity.
MEETINGS CALLED
NEW YORK — Forty-nine alien
"agitators." awaiting deportation at
Ellis Island, have obtained a writ of
habeas corpus to halt their return.
The writ, granted by Federal .Judge
Knox, is returnable Thursday.
Caroline Lowe, Chicago attorney,
presented the writ to Judge Knox aT
the Republican club's Lincoln dinner
at the Waldorf Astoria. Action °f
in the trenches on pay day,' he! the woman lawyer followed a day
said. The 'Y' man took the
cigarettes back.
'Rut the "Y" has to sell its
goods,' replies the sustainer of
activity among the city's radicals to
prevent deportation of the 54 agita-
tors. Many meetings were held to
consider methods of staying action.
The writ was signed by Judge Knox
that organization. It's the of-jus a matter uf routine, and Is unlciue
ficial army canteen, named by i in providing far an argument
Gen. Pershing. Does it have | return without appearance of the
to try to sell things at the front, j prisoner's in court.
where wet, weary and wounded j \o stkiki: coxxection.
doughboys, who are trudging j washington—None of the aliens
■ back to the Dressing Station, al-i now awaiting deportation at Ellis
ways broke, are to insure its J Island had any connection with the
'business basis.' Or was I mis- 8«Utle Kirike or any strlk* in .he
taken when I thought that the nest, Anthony Camtnettl, commis'
'Y' raised popular subscriptions j siont>r-freneral of Immigration stated
OVer there at home? I Thursday, denying reports to the con-
* * #
"A driver went into the Y. M.
C. A. canteen at Toul Base hos-
pital and purchased a carton of
cigarettes. Just outside Metz,
y>.hi!e the train was halted to
!> How a car to catch up, the
driver opened his carton to get
a cigarette. Out fell a card
with words printed upon it to
this effect:
" 'These cigarettes are not to
be sold. They are for free dis-
tribution. Donation of Mrs.
and a woman's name
and address was written under
the print. Evidently the 'Y'
stock inspector had been lax!
* *
"1 might go on indefinitely.
With few exceptions, wherever
our ambulance men have had
dealings with the 'Y' they have j
been met with misunderstand-
ings, lack of sympathy and high
prices. They have bought ci-
garettes at army sales' commis-
saries cheaper in price. They
have been met with hackneyed
phrases about 'making ex-
penses' when they wanted to
know the wherefore. The Y. M.
C. A. directors seem to have for-
gotten that some former busi-
ness men are 'doughboys,' and
that a few cents a box, on cigar-
ettes, while it may represent
only a few cents, is just as valu- Mng the fur the wrong way, and will
able a modicum, for all that, to
the soldier as to the 'Y' manage-
ment. If the 'Y' cannot sell sup-
plies at prices that do not differ
from army sales* commissary
prices, with all their donations,
they ought to have quit the at-
tempt long ago."
Selling donations at a profit
above the market price to weary
doughboys. Some patriots!
Charles Edward Russell and
William English Walling,
•speaking for the Social-Demo-
cratic League, declined to par-
ticipate in the Socialist confer-
ence in Berne. They claim the
conference is another German
< scheme.
What's the matter? Is the
affection of our masters cool-
ing'.' Don't they love you as
t,hev did of yore? I am told one
« of you received $25,000 pocket
monqy to go to Russia to stop
the revolution. Is it, because
you did not deliver the goods
then, or did they get next that !^i levism by telling f€
vou have no goods to deliver?
Once The New York Times
spoke of vou fellows as "our i there. He has been in Switzer-
Socialists." Why do they re- j land ever since the administra-
fuse to furnish transportation tion put him on the pay roll. He
and incidental expenses to your is there to speak for you, only!
honorable body all at once? the European Socialists won't j
* * * | let him.
Console yourself, however.! Nevertheless, I think it was
The administration is not with-1 mean to drop you so suddenly,
out a voice at the Berne confer-, For old times sake they should|
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F ood
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THE DAILY
celvcd 78. The circu-
okiahoma Leader is on
BY JOHN HAG EL*
The mall for The Oklahoma header
has increased wonderfully. New subs
are coming In every mail Wednesday
was our record breaker—10- ub-
acrlptions were received thai uay. Th
next day we
iailon of The
thu boom.
Hut we are a long way from being
saiisiled. In 1916 there wero abut
06,000 Socialist voters In Oklahoma.
Very few of them are subscribers lo a
real Socialist paper. We must get
them as readers for The Oklahoma
Leader. In addition we have some
55,000 Socialist women in the state
These women are now voters.
must have them read our papers. Do
not neglect them For the pr-sent
we arc not ho much interested in the
Democrats and Republicans. We will
get them.
w Whole Process of Putting the
Amendment Through House
Might Be Done Over.
What we must have now in the sup-
port of these more than 100,000 So-
cialist men and women. Your help Is
needed to get them on the mailing
list of The Oklahoma Leader. Each
of you know some of these good men
and women. Get a quarter from them
for a thrc.- months' subscription.
I«ater on they will be glad to pay $1
for a year's subscript ion.
J It is on these loo.ooo nun end
women that we must depend for the
establishment of our daily. What a
small mater it would I" to establish
the daily with llie active and militant
support of 100,000 Socialist men mid
women in oklahoma. So our llrst
duty is to get them as subscribers for
the weekly. Wo will take care of the
rest.
than
000
BALLOT STANDS 55 TO 29
WASHINGTON—For the fourfU
time the I'nlted States senate Moih
day defeated the 'resolution to sub-
mit a woman Huffrage constitutional
amendment to the states.
The vote was GrO to 2!>.
The vote proved a bitter disap*
f pointment to suffragists who had
; counted on President Wilson and oth-
er Democratic leaders to swing
southern Democrats in line.
Not one of those on whom the nuf-
| fragists pinned their hopes voted for
i suffrage.
SHOW SO Ml-; GAIN.
The voir hist October was u.* fop
suffrage to •".! against it
Today's \ote follows.
VOTED Y I5S
Ashurst, ('alder, Colt. Culberson*
runimlns, t'urtls, l-'ernald, France*
l-'rellnghu.vKen, Gerry, Gore, Gronna,
We have mor
hand In the way of cheek!
pledges for the dail> The coi
are beginning to pay out on tli-
Wewoka comrade sends u ft
f„i $4i) i Hulah up his pnyinonls on ! """linn. Hemhison. JohiiHon, Callfor-
150. Another chwk from Elk City for | '■' • Johiwon. South Dakota: 4-... <.
$15, applying on $20
trary.
Although the bureau of Immigra-
tion plans to deport all alien an-
archists and agitators, Caminetti
serted the majority to be sent back
are insane, diseased or persons who
have been found guilty of offenses
subjecting them to deportation.
It is estimated 6,000 are to be do-
ported.
Caminetti denied prison trains are
being used to transport the aliens.
"Ordinary precaution is taken
guarding anarchistic aliens." he said,
"livery allen deportation case Is oe-
ing carefully Investigated and the
allen and his witnesses are heard.1'
i. w. w. li:\di:hs 'scrutinized.*
CHICAGO—Records
leaders here were scrutinized Thurs-
day by federal officers with a vie
to "assisting In cleaning but unde-
sirable aliens." Twenty-six men ar
rested at i. W. W. headquarters wen
released Thursday but officers wen
instructed to watch carefully for any
violation of federal laws
RUBBING THE FUR
THE WRONG WAY
The Kingfisher Weekly Free Press,
commenting on the Fourth Liberty
loan, states, "Every county in the
state, except Grant, Alfalfa and
Dewey, went over the top. Socialism
is the principal asset in Alfalfa and
Dewey counties, which is probably re-
sponsible for the lack ol' patriotism."
Probably is right, for of all the So-
cialists of Oklahoma the Alfalfa So-
cialists were the most patriotic. We
met them all, and we know. To tell
them that they are responsible for
Alfalfa county's bad showing is rub-
TIMe IN TI WB PILE?
An Answer to the Attack of The Daily Oklahoman on the
Good Roads Program.
The Muskogee Phoenix says:
Editor Phoenix: l rot ' your black
face front page editorial in your issue
of Jan. 31, 1919. anent The Oklaho-
man editorial about the good i^oads
proposition. You seem to be ut a loss
to understand the attitude of The ok-
lahoman. I understand from other
sources that the author of the article
in The Okiahoman was much dis-
tressed about the proposed use of
concrete base in the new state roads.
Now that peculiar fact is indicative
of the authorship and purpose of the
scream to my mind apd 1 want to tell
you why. I might say in the outset j ture. < 'oncri
that for the last two or three years will "bridge
been granted—and how they got them
is aJ mystery—these individuals pro-
pose to make a killing in this $50,-
000,000 road bond proposition. Now
to get back to the fact that the au-
thor of the scream in The Oklaho-
man objects so seriously to concrete
base for this road. It must be con-
ceded by those who have given the
subject much study or investigation
that concrete is the modern and most
generally satisfactory material with
which to construct hard surface roads
in a country like this where the soil
is sandy and light, or loamy in na-
is the only base that
You understand by
them wonder whether the So
cialists get hell whether they do or
whether they don't. We suggest that
Tiie Kinkflsher Weekly be- indicted
for discouraging the sale of Liberty
bonds.
Trotzky has closed up the churches
of Russia and clet |ymen who
preached against the new brotherhood
have mostly been murdered. But
there still remains a good deal to be
done, for instance, the school houses
must be burned and every man with
more than one shirt must have his
head cut otY. But all this can't be
attended to at once. It will take some
time yet before the Bolsheviki suc-
ceeds in making Russia into perfect
I Jtopla.—Oklahoman.
We have read lies and lies about
Russia, and we have read the other
side in magazines like The New Re-
public. The Nation and The Dial. The
facts given in the latter prove that
Russia is not in chaos, but that the
new government is efficient and grow-
ing more powerful each day. Public
schools are being established through-
out the country, while art and litera-
ture are getting special attention. Peo-
■nle may believe a certain number of
lies, but they can't be fooled all the
time, so we suggest to The Oklahoman
it it can make its fight against Bol-
big lies about
and particularly for the most of last
year l gave this hard surface road
proposition considerable thought, in-
vestigation and study. The reason
was the fact that I got into the Ok-
mulgee county litigation about the
proposition to issue and expend $800.-
000 realized from the sale of bonds
for the purpose of making hard
this that 1 mean to say that concrete
forms a compact and solid structure
of Itself and makes an ideal road
without any "top."
This being true, why this scream
in The Oklahoman? In the trial of
the Okmulgee county case a record
was made which aggregated when
ready to tile in the supreme court,
roads In okmulgee county We ; about 1,000 pages The bulk of th
were not in this litigation long until |y testimony of men who have been
we discovered that we were up againsi engaged in the road business for
the real thing, to-wit: The owners of many years and some of whom were
the hard surface road patents from i employed by the patent road gang,
an eastern city. The patent road sur- [t was noted that the patented sur-
face man is the bane of the road fttce people did not specify concrete
building proposition. as a base and the whole tight in Ok-
Backed by millions gained from the i mulgee county was brought on by the
people of the I'nlted Slates under fact that a loose rolled stone base was
these patents which should never have j specified in the specifications which
there, have engaged at least second
nice. Frank Bohn ~ — . . - _ ... . , ^
Frank Bohn the erstwhile, ill- cabin and sent the whole So
ternationai. clear-cut, simon- j dal-Demoeratic League over;
pure, Marxian, S. I.. P.. I. W. there. I know there are only;
W.. fire-eating, heaven-storm- tour berths in the cabin, but
^ sabotaging, direct-action, | one could have slept on
raving-red revolutionist
A Call to Action
The Final Work to Establish The Daily Oklahoma Leader
Approximately $75,000 additional money is needed to
establish the daily. This money must come from the com-
rades of Oklahoma. Somewhat over $90,000 has been re-
ceived in actual cash. Enough pledges and pre-dated checks
are on hand, so that with the further addition of $75,000 we
will then have the full $200,000 of securities sold, which is
the amount set originally for the establishment of The Daily
Leader. We want to raise this $75,000 quickly. We want
1.500menand womentoput up $50 each. We are going to find
these 1.500 that are able to do this. We are going to beat
the highways and byways until we do find them. The 100,-
000 Socialist men and women in Oklahoma purchased at
least $2,000,000 worth of liberty bonds and war savings
stamps. Surely these same men and women will put up
the $75,000 needed to put up The Leader building and finish
the financing of the daily. Our progress will be swift, if we
find these 1,500 men quickly. It will be still swifter if
these 1,500 men find us before we have to find them. Our
progress will be hindered to just the extent of time that we
will have to spend to find these 1.500. Who are these 1,500?
Speak up, comrades. Let us finish the job.
We are starting the list of 1.500 who are buying $50
Leader securities to complete the sale of $200,000 for the
establishment of the daily.
No. 1—A. R. Moebius, Maramec, Okla.
No. 2—A. R. Moebius, Maramec, Okla.
No. 3—Sam Femarz, Oklahoma City, Okla. '
No. 4—J. W. Bradburn, Oklahoma City, Okla.
No. 5—John Sisk, Oklahoma Citv, Okla.
WE NEED 1,495 MORE. WHO ARE THEY? RE
ONE OF THE 1,500.
I want to be one of the 1,500 to buy $50 worth of 'I he
Leader securities. I enclose herewith check or money
order for Fifty Dollars.
Name.
was seriously objected Co by the ma-
jority of the people in this county.
I talked with a man from Kansus City
who sold this patent top for years
and he could not tell me why they
did not use concrete base on this type
of construction anrl I was very much
in the dark about the matter until the
case was tried and the patented sur-
face people brought on the experts
from the Pacific to the Atlantic and
hack to Memphis. one man from
Memphis was frank enough to tell us
why this type of patented top is not
used on concrete base and here
get the answer to your question.
said he did not specify concrete base
with the top because il was very un
satisfactory as the large stones in the
top broke when laid on concrete base
and were subjected to heavy traffic on
hard trimmed wheels and when it
broke and ground up under the traffic
the wind and rain moved it out of the
hole where it had b« • n imbedded and
then the weather got in and the five--,
ing and thawing of water in these
holes soon destroyed the top unless it
was constantly kept repaired. Vou
will understand that the patent for
this surface i« based on the use of
stone from one inch down to palpable
dust, whereas the top commonly used
free from royalty is made of stone
of one-half Inch to dust, mostly con-
structed hereabouts from what is
known as "chats," being flint from the
mines of the Miami district most of
which is much smaller than one-half
inch. All of our cities have used it
on h concrete base and we know that
it is the best surfacing material we
have ever found for thai type of
work.
Whenever you hear anyone yap-
1 ping against concrete base you may
know that he is yapping for some
patented pavement and as that outfit noi
are multimillionaires it is supposed lie
is doing It for nothing and the news
paper that allows Its front pag< !■
be used iu a crusade of this kind is
doing a great, free, philanthropic work
>>f educating the masses to know their
j best interests and should not be a<'
I cused of being subsidized. This faci
to which I call attention proved to be
the weakness of the streets laid in
several central Kansas cities and they
were soon abandoned and torn up.
The shortest and best remedy for
this situation and the one which will
help in getting this good roads move-
ment on a solid and stable basis is
the one l have suggested to members
nf the legislature Have the legisla-
ture at once pass a law similar to the
one now in effect in Illinois which
makes it illegal to contract for and
unlawful to construct any public road
of any patented road material. This
Is a simple remedy for a serious dls-
sease and unless this Is done the state
dollars in tribute to this patent ro
gang or millions to be rid of them l
fore this roiul building program
finished. Respectfully yours,
FRANK K LAMP.
"RUINED MY HOME,"
SOLDIER'S DEFENSE
Okla.—This town, i
A comrade from Stroud sends In a
liberty bond to pay for his shares
Another comrade from Tribbey doer *
likewise. He had only subscribed j
$30, but Increases his total to $«U by |
applying for $30 more of these Leader j
securities
And so it
Many questb
dally Some
impatient
iitinuo
rade
the dela
day after day.
iked the
s have become
They seem to
under the impression that we are
to blame iu soni" manner f«>i 'he de-
lay. They think that we ought to b«
publishing the daily at this lime. No
doubt we would be publishing the
dally at this time if the government
had not issued eertain regulations
last July. Which prevented the sale of
eurities that w
winning of th«-
ly other se-
sential to the
undei
rid why It
•f a build-
ibllshlng the
others ct
is ne^essan for us to
lug of our own, before ij/
daily We found It n« xt t.. impos- bl
to secure a suitable location at Okla
homa Clt \ that could bo rented <•
leased Rentals on desirable buslnee
property are ver\ high. This made i
imperative that w- purchase a sit
to erect our own building. Then • he
begin the erection o
a me the further gov
ctions preventing th
t* rials and labor in h
Mexico; Jones. Washington; Kel-
logg, Kendrick, Kenyon, Klrby, La
Follette, Lcnroot, Lewis, McCumbsr,
McNary, Meyers, Nelson,
is, Nugent, Page, Pittmau*
PoInde.\ter, Pollock, Ransdell, Robin-
son, Shnfroth, Sheppard, Sherman.
Smith, Arizona; Smith, Michigan;
Smoot, Spencer Sterling, Sutherland,
j Thomas. Thompson, Townsend, Y.irda-
man, Walsh. Warren Watson—Total,
| 55.
THOSE VOTING NO;
tialrd, Bank head, Breckinan, Borah,
i Brandegee, Dillingham, Fletcher, (Jny,
Halo, Hard wick, Hitchcock, Lodge,
j Me Lean. Martin, Virginia; Moses,
overman, Penrose, Pomerene, Sauls-
burs, Simmons, Smith, Georgia; Smith,
South Cnolina, Swanson, Tramtnell,
Underwood, Wadsworth, Weeks. Wil-
liams and Woleott Total, 2y.
Senator Pollock, South Carolina*
opened with a speech announcing his
support. Pollock's views were known*
and bis speech created no surprise.
Attention centered on three other
senators who had refused either pub-
licly ot privately to commit them-*
selves, Borah and Dillingham, Repub-
licans, and Trammel!, Democrat.
we want
the bulk
eminent
;t I
o.
I\ VOTI. FOR IT.
Republicans voted
erectioi
of
I mil' I
All thesf
moved. \V
balance
eurities, ai
this task w
a little mo
will soon a
thaf have
umpl
-frictions ha
are busy now
the $200,000
with th.
will surely hav
little more pat
work on the p
oMiplish the tas
ude pledges t.. 'I
been r<-
•lling the
daily
e and
Leader In the
checks, or lil
should pay ti
not be delay e
building Th
property was
$6 50. Tin-
wreck the l i
way
onds.
Thirty-one Republicans voted tor
the measure and 1" against, while 24
Demoerats voted In th* affirmative and
19 in the negative.
The defeat prac tically mean?- nation-
wide enfranchisement of women must
wait for a long time It will be iin-
sion even were there an- chance of
converting the outh which thus has
;tgain blocked suffrage.
Next session the resolution will have
to be puf through the house again, and
this
didh
•a use
tin
emb<
Id they will prepare
ept full responslbi
le.de
Kl. they dO-
ek,
thai
In order
struction w
We must ha
before we c
not afford t
vou. Make
sold this last
purchaser is
illdtng during
$10,00i
begin
s| | i |{\(.l l It.Il l < >1 D
An
tded to
le tints
g'1
cm your pled
quickest wj v
We must put
us finish that
do not fall to
from your n
your Socialist
oklahoma Le
for his subset
paper so mm
chec ks.
Will b<
to establish the- <
up that building
job In a short time
send in that list <>f
dghborhood. We
neighbors t«> enjoy
ve hai
e will
when
him
the
WTIIOV N
Miss Anthoi
Ined
TALHLEQl*
he place whlc
notion through the tar .
ner of T A. Lewis. Social!*
or congress at the last
he Homer Wilson murder
When shall
li- building.
r. That
daily in
or three month- ' I
is to be your buildini-
<• the pledget
the
nnths' time.
daily and
gain put th
lovement t
•ominon law pie
of dirty dogs
obi man Anthony)
,• and kill me."
j as for local and s\utu officials.
LEGISLATURE MUST HAVE
THE HOOK WORM
i si floor
r>
thicii now centers in New loik city. JI
-Is to liltt
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