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oklahoma leader
THREB
TODAY
Are Fifty Millions Much?
Modern Rib Miracle.
Tooth-Brush Efficiency.
I seful Wilson Letter.
BY AllTHUB BKISBAStE
To. bis many charities, while alive,
Jacob Scblff a<Jd5 a million and a
half in bis will. To his family he
leaves about fifty millions.
• A treat fortune," you say. That
depends on what you call "great."
One man in the United States has
an annual income at least twice as
big as Jacob Schiff's total fortune.
Henry Ford's annual Income must be
hlBger than the total fortune left by
Scbiff. for Henry Ford In one year
paid to the government forty mil-
lions of income tax.
Everything is comparative. Once
upon a time a man with one million
was very rich. Now he lives com
fortably if a good manager.
Once, only one mechanic in the
I'nited States could earn as much
as J1 a day, average. He was
skillful carpenter and worked twelve
hours ft day. Now average carpen-
ters are paid $1 an hour and some
carpenters $1.80 an hour.
Don't forget, as you think about
Ki'eat fortunes, that tho most re-
markable thing in all our civiliia-
tion is the increased income of the
little man.
There Is plenty for all, the prob-
lem is to see that each, willing to
work, has enough, and thus keep all
happy. No man takes away with
him at the end more than the cost
of the coffin and the clothes. Let
that soothe you.
Nature is kind, even to the dying.
Those that die a natural death suf-
fer little pain. It relieves many to
read that Lord Mayor MacSwiney,
starving himself to death for love of
his country, says that, while very
weak, his slow death causes no pain.
queer
[st
;t
Attempt to Throw Suspicion
Oft Trail of Dupont, Helen
Augur Hints.
The nerves warn us violently
first, and when warning does
flood they cease worrying'us. When
criminals were tortured to death,
they ceased to feel pain after a
while, ami the tortures worked
vainly. Ravaillac. broken on the
wheel for killing Henry the Fourth,
laughed after his arms and legs had
been broken in two or three places,
saying he no longer felt pain. They
delayed torture that his nerves
would recover.
Nearly all animals die violent
deaths. Scientists say that, when
pursued and killed in flight, the in-
tense mental excitement prevents
pain. It is only when ill and too
weak to defend themselves or fly
that they feel the enemies' teeth.
Organized on a cruel basis, among
animals as well as men. nature does
the best that she can to protect us.
The Chinese are dying of hunger
at the rate of a thousand a day. so
says a dispatch from Peking. They
turn their eyes toward America,
hoping. Missionaries say it will
take two hundred million dollars to
save the lives of hundreds of
thousands of Chinese. Will this
country give the money? Probably
not. The Chinese should have come
here while the war was on, bor-
rowed a thousand millions and put it
away—they would have it now. Poor,
courteous Chinese, they failed to
appear when the shovel was work-
ing in the treasury department.
Their European brothers were not
bo slow.
If the misery of the Chinesf de-
presses you. the triumph of science
may cheer you. They have put
fourteen inches of new backbone
into a man's spine, using the rib
of a cow, which was boiled, then
frozen, polished and sandpapered, to
take the place of the missing back-
hone. Interesting, you will say. but
BY HELEN AUGUR,
Federated Pretta Correnpondent
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.—The arrest
in Pittsburg of Florence Zelenka, an
obscure Russian tailor from Brook
lyn, "suspected" of having a part in
the tragic Wall street oxplosion of
September 16, may signal the begin-
ning of a Tom Mooney case on the
east coast.
Every detail of Zelenka's arrest is
palpably indicative that the federal
operatives have used their fortnight
of silence since the explosion to plan
a "frame-up." l^abor and liberal
groups all over the country, remem-
bering the Mooney case, the parcel
post "bomb" and Attorney General
Palmer's May-Day party, have been
waiting for some aliened "red" to be
arrested and made the scape-goat
for the Wall street disaster.
Odd Circumstance*.
Evidently he has been found.
The newspaper stories of the ar-
rest form a very thin screen over
the creaking mechanism of a depart-
ment of Justice "plant." They run
as follows:
Zelenka left Hrooklyn September
24, a week after the explosion. He
went to Whitman Junction. W. Va.,
and then to Cincinnati.
On the train from Cincinnati to
Pitsburg tbe tailor struck up an ac-
quaintance with a man described as
a former government operative. This
man's name is being guarded 1^ the
police.
The artless Russian, according to
the tale, took five sticks of dyna-
mite out of his suitcase and flour-
ished them in his companion's face.
He is reported to have said:
"See what we did in Wall street
That was only a starter. The next
will be •biftger and inoro teirible."
The "former operative" became
alarmed, but oddly enough made no
attempt to have the man taken in
custody on the train or at the sta-
tion. In spite of his long training
in dealing with crime, in spite of the
fact that the Wall street mystery is
perhaps the ugliest an<^ biggest
problem ever presented to eastern
police to solve, this operative actu-
ally let the man go. presumably car-
rying his dynamite and percussion
caps, and then notified the police.
With rare Intuition, they found his
hotel.
Correspondents and Press
Officials Denounce Colby |
Only Few Who Are Fighting Socialism Believe Secretary ot ||
State Was Justified In the Expulsion of the
Federated Press.
By Federated Prew. 25
NEW YORK.—The expulsion of the Wasnington corre- ==
spondents of the Federated Press from the press "conferences '==
of the State Department has created a stir in newspaper ana s—
liberal circles here. Along a range of opinion stretching fiom ^
Morris Hillquit, prominent Socialist, to Ralph haslev, presi- ^
dent of the National Civic Federation, the Socialist-fighting
organization the conviction was expressed that the secretai > ^
of state was acting in an arrogant manner. —
Htllqult declared that the "Grand „,„n =
Vizier" had by his action given Irol to meet the challenge manfully j-;
warning to every other newspaper put up to them. ,
man that he must submit or share "The questions which have been
the fate of the labor press repre- met with a blow will come up again _
sentatives iini1 newspapermen who daii> —
"They will learn once for ail that attend the futile ^ " =
the foreign relations of this coun- state department will themseKe,, ^
try arc Mr. Colby's private concern, see that this expulsion is 1 * —
just as the post office of the United the professional honor of the whole —
States is Mr. Burleson's private corps, and will no longer lest eon-
property, and American justice Mr. tent with their role of pewstve pup- ^
Palmer's private sport," he assertod pets of ti propaganda machine. ^
Easley!""while0' emphaaUUiK th. CONDENSED MILK FIRMS =
need of great discretion in reveal- j
ing state secrets, still was forced to j
admit that the spectacle in h so- jap*\v YORK Oct 9. By organizing
called democracy of a government ^ fourt,en co-operative =
official filling the pi ess hour with ; plants, the Dairymen's league =
his own personal opinions, was of New York has successfully met the =
hardly in accord with American ° °fr0Kr"C(1 upon lt by the con- =
traditions He was "ware how- '"milk manufacturers who re =
fused after October 1 to buy an) =
REFUSE TO BUY MILK =
ever, that the men were
—ho did not call them "Bolsheviks'
—and that on that ground Mr. Colby !
more milk for six months.
was qutle justified in his action. \ The refusal of ^ manufacturer, |
Home of the Washington corre- to Pyrchase mllk wa. ^used hy no ;
spondenta of New York paper, who shortage In the :
had witnessed the banishment,! according to an official of the league. ,
wrote stories that revealed a long ! The mantifacturers|__motlve was to .
suppressed desire to protest
Hanna did at the Colby policy
John Glelssner, I'nited News cor-
respondent. declared that tbe Incl
dent had "forced into tbe limelight
the methods by which the public is
informed of the relations of this
government with those of other na-
tions.
"The public learns just about
what the officials want them to—no
more or less." he said. "Nor can it
be disputed that virtually all of the
information the state department
has burnished about soviet Russia
is calculated to discredit the move-
ment. in line with the department's
policy that 'we cannot have rela-
tions with thieves and murderers.' "
11 ti ii tut as Justified.
The New York Evening Post cor-1
respondent, H. C. McMUlen, whe I
took the Btand that Hanna was jus
dispose of their large stocks of con-
densed tnilk made with high priced
sugar before laying in new supplies.
"In the face of tbe increasing de-
mand for milk which rises at this
season of the year." the league of-
ficial said, "farmers were faced with
tbe alternative of slaughtering their
cows to reduce milk production or
finding other markets for their milk.
By the organization of co-operative
plants condensed milk can now be
sold in an unrestricted market and
the retail price to the consumer can
be greatly reduced."
NON-PARTISAN STATE
LOWERS TAXES 41%
By Federated Preso.
BISMARCK. N. D., Oct. 0 A cut
of 41 percent, or $1,191,980, has
been marie in the state tax levy by
the board of equalization. Includ
tified in most of his criticisms,
when Colby asked for an expression |"j° ^' BneciaV'soWierTonus levy,
What happened in this hotel room " the %o"7'amo.tnt of "(ate
Zelenka's door, and entered withj.a known as ..holl weevils" ln |pared with $828,853 more paid las
drawn revolvers.
Police Methods.
They beat Zelenka unconscious.
While he was lying senseless they
"found" the sultca.«e with dynamite.
Then they took him to the police
station and put him through the
third degree all night.
Meanwhile, absents of \Jf411iam
Flynn, chief of the bureau m inves- |
Washington terminology, he went .
I —— III.. Intnsr11-otntlnn r\t thla noet I 1 Uc I"
. i iih itm tax levy for general
His interpretation of this pest i ^ purpOBeg largely due to the
is as follows. ifact that the Bank of North Dakota,
"All persistent, tactless persons ^kmen'. compensation bureau,
who remind ensconced officialdom ^ (he lndUBtrlal commission have
repaid or have set aside funds to
Don't Get Excited
Because the price of cotton has declined so rapidly in the last HO clays many pro-
ducers and holders of cotton are becoming extremely nervous. The more the price
of cotton lias declined, the more excited have become owners and holders of cotton.
Consequently, more cotton has been sold, and this causes a further decline, ln
other words, a panic of selling has descended upon the cotton market in the last
few weeks. Market manipulators and bears, taking advantage of conditions, are
helping' along1 this selling' panic by spreading propaganda and rumors. They are play-
ing the same old game of running the price down so that they can run it up again
after the producer of cotton has been frozen out. There is, of course, a lot of legiti-
mate hedging- in the contract market which lias unwittingly depressed the price of
cotton. Those who know anything about the cotton market and have studied it for
the past (JO days know that the enormous Southern hedge selling has on several oc-
casions almost completely demoralized the market. Don't get excited. Stop selling
cotton. Don't let bear operators and manipulators freeze you out. Sit steady in the
boat. -
Don't Sell Your Cotton—Hold It
If every-bale of cotton could be held off the market during the month, what would
happen to the paper speculators—m6st of them would not know a stalk of cotton if
they saw it in the field—who have sold "short" for October delivery? Suppose the
South would shut up shop in October and refuse to sell a bale of actual cotton I Hold
your cotton-—do not sell it now. Let the "short sellers walk the floor for their Octo-
ber and December commitments. One cannot spin cotton goods out of tissue paper
contracts. Those who have sold cotton "short" have got to have the cotton. Hold
your cotton until you get a price above the cost of production. - — '
You Can Get the Money—The Federal Reserve
Bank Will Help
money is tight, don't get the idea that the owner of cotton cannot borrow money on his cotton.
of campaign promises, or bringing
up apparent inconsistencies, are
dubbed 'boll weevils.'
* So the radical correspondents,
who at times wanted the state de-
ligation of the department of Jus- )ent to recontMe .seif.,|eter
tice, hail conveniently been informed „,,k rfl„„„„,v«t ,,,
of the man's address, and after ter-
rorizing another Russian tailor
repay $230,000 of the appropriation
granted them by the 1019 legi^ii-
ture.
Michael Terkasky, who was his land-
inlnation' with disapproval of soviet-
Ism. or with military occupation of
Haiti, or 'open covenants, openly ar
rived at, with extreme reticence on
lord, raided Zelenka's room, |the japanese and other foreign ne-
Evidently they found hnt they 1 (.am0 be 0lilS8ed a3
"radical Uterature in Russian"Va*s j boil weevils by officials fellow
discovered. The operatives also re- correspondents.
"0, tedf "t'he H^culesndpowSerecom "The State department gives out a
rnnv In tw httnlt' which evidently modicum of news -'handouts,' in the
h ^ Shared the' usual fate of the inelegant phraseology of trampilom
hpay "nvelop^ but had be'en neatly -and many correspondents are dis-
posed to take what is givfn and ren-
preserven. )pi. thanka other correspondents.
The federal acents gave nut II wbo watch the foreign dispatches,
statement tvhich said they had and try to dovetail the Internationa,
learned that Zelenka had left his ! Joiner-work always in progress, sel-
home two hours before the Wall dom get much help from the state
street explosion, carrying a reddish |department s press conferences,
yellow bag. (This may he an artis-I Mrs. t*e.r*fu'le , Z
tic touch on the part of the agents, terview with Secretaiy i ,.j"
to offset the grand Jury evidence of j ported by Hanna, furnished consid-
a dozen persons who said they saw | erable fuel to olby s rage, said
a reddish-yellow wagon belonging 1 that bis action was in perfect con-
to the DuPont de Nomoure company jsistency with his whole career,
on the scene of (he explosion.) 1 "Mr. Colby is much hke a spm-
The Russian tailor lived in the;ning top-rotating continuously till
heart of the Brownsville section of|he comes back to the °Pi^i°ns he
Brooklvn, which is a Russian Jewish rejected some time ago. His action speak at:
• . - . i « 1 j l.„ onmn imont tr ll.,nn.A
SPEAKING DATES
OF SOCIALISTS
l.airgston.
J. luther Langston will speak in:
Garvin county, until Oct. 8, inclu-
Bive.
Murray county until Oct. Id, in-
Murray county, Oct. D to 15, in-
Cleveland county, Oct. 16 to 22, in-
clusive.
Oklahoma county, Oct. 23 to Nov.
2, inclusive.
Itngwell and (ieist.
A. A. Bagwell and H. C. Geist will
speak at:
Farry, Oct. 10, 3 p. m.
Driftwood, Oct. 11, 3 p. ra.
Florence, Oct. 11, 8 p. m.
Medford, Oct. 12, 3 p. m.
Blackwell, Oct. 12, 8 p. ni.
Perry, Oct. 13, 3 p. m.
Morrison, Oct. 13, 8 p. ra.
Stillwater, Oct. 14.
Tulsa, Oct. 15.
Tucker.
Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker wll
center, and the home of workers, should be quite a compliment to
Brownsville is in fact one of the the Federated Press.
most active labor districts in Greater i Julian Lcavitt, business manager
New York, nnd through the arrest of the Federated Press, Joined Al-
of Zelenka. the police announce that gernon Lee. S. John Block. Gilbert
they feel free to go In and "clean Roe. and others in commenting on
things up." ouster.
The arrest of Zelenka at least fur- Only ( onrse In Honor.
nlshes an Impatient country with the I "Paul Hanna has taken the only ,
knowledge that the police have been course in honor open to him and
active in some direction to clear up the Federated Press by thus calling
not new. since the rib of a man was | lhp Wfll, street niystery. It is ae- attention to the irresponsibility of
made into a complete
thousand years ago.
The admirably economical and
efficient povernment of this country
has for sale ten million tooth-
brushes, not used. •
What a contrast with the air craft
hoard and dollar a year patriots,
who spent a thousand million dol-
lars and didn't get any flying ma-
chines! If only the tooth-brush
committee had been put in charge of
the flying machines and the flying
machine committee in charge of the
toothbrushes! But repret is useless
now, and there is going to be a new
administration. Perhaps the coun-
try will get more flying machines
and fewer tooth-brushes in the next
war. We did show tooth-brush ef-
ficiency ar.yhow.
Sometimes a little boy hesitates
on the bank, asking friends how
cold the water is. There comes a
push from behind; he finds out.
then he likes it. So it was. per-
haps. with Senator Borah, who was
hesitating on the brink of a cam-
paign for Harding.
The papers said he wou dr 't speak
and he wouldn't say what he would
do. Along came that letter on the
league from President Wilson. That
gave Senator Borah the necessary
push, end In he went. Now he is
woman six | knowledged to be the particular
business of the federal a«ents to
solve the problem, for there was no
mystery about the explosion except
that created by Attorney General
Palmer and Flynn.
Enough evidence that tho explo-
sion was a careless accident has
| been suppressed to have solved the
problem two or three times. It has
been suppressed for the obvious pur-
pose of keeping the kettle boiling on
the hearth of America's great spy
system.
government official who may mort- ,
gage, and perhaps has secretly
mortgaged, the honor, the fortunes, j
and the future of the I'nited States
in secret enterprises which can not
stand the test of public scrutiny.
"This 'expulsion,' like another ex-
pulsion at Albany, is an evidence of j
the inability of the powers in con
Henryetta, Oct. 10.
Checotah, Oct. 11.
Coweta. Oct. 12.
Tulsa, Oct. 13.
Chelsea, Oct. 14.
Commerce, Oct. 15.
McVickers.
Mary McVickers will speak at:
North Mlamr, Oct. 30.
Pitcher. Oct. 11.
Cardin, Oct. 12.
Peoria, Oct. 13.
Knfield.
O. E. Enfield will speak at:
Mountain Park. Oct. 30, 3 p. ra.
Roosevelt, Oct. 11, R p. m.
Cooperton. Oct. 12, 8 p. m.
Gotebo, Oct. 13, 8 p. in.
Mountain View. Oct. 14. 8 p. m.
Hobart. Oct. 16. 2 p. m.
I^one Wolf, Oct. 16. 4 p. m.
SEATTLE. Oct. 0.—Cooks and as-
sistants in their semi-annual elec-
tion Will use a voting machine loaned
by the county authorities. Accuracy
in tabulating the ballot is given as
the reason for adopting this method
of voting hitherto confined to public
elections.
In the directories of some Euro-
! pean cities it is the practice to mark
the names of married men with an
I asterisk. This is to impart informa-
tion to unmarried women.
going to speak regularly until the
end of the campaign.
Therefore President W.'. ion's let-
ter will affect this campai.<n. It will
put more energy into Senator
Borah; also into Hiram Johnson,
and that will mean a few hundred
thousand extra votes for Harding
bringing out men that might have
neglected to vote on a fture thing.
Providence works mysteriously,
even ln poll/'
CLASSIFIED CLUTE SAYS:
Can you press and clean a suit,
Mix__a drink or mend a boot?
~~~ Use the ads.
Do you need some cotton pick-
ers?
Want to sell some wines or
liquors ?
Use the ads.
CALL MAPLE 7600
Because
= System are at liberty to make loans without reference to tho board at Washington. Any statement to the con- _
~ trarv is a deception." Any merchant or bank will lend you money on your cotton up to 80 or JO pel cent ol
=== its market value on the warehouse receipts. Don't sell your cotton. Take it to the warehouse, gut a receipt =
= and borrow the money to pay your bills. Hold your cotton until you (jet a better price, f every cotton pro- =
= duccr and owner would sell one-twelfth of his crop per month, he would bring about ordeily marketing which 53.
= would stabilize the price and obtain for the seller the real value of the product. £3
| Let's Stand Together and Keep Prosperity in the South |
Bankers, merchants, professional men, farmers, laborers, and every individual in the South is interested —
. . 1 , , j* ...a i .. 14 ■. • < lin 4 ■ mn 1 n i* €111 t ti f1 —
m and a 'little chewing tobacco' on the side. The South will not go back to the poverty and economical slavery ||
~ of the past. The South wants to keep building good roads; it wants to give its children a chance to go t ^
= school; and the industrious and hard-working farmer wants the privilege of buymg a Ford now and then. ^
The way to keep the South prosperous is to fight to maintain its prosperity. The South has practically a
monopoly on the cotton production of the world. We have got the resources ot the South to n nUn this
control of cotton prduction and the cotton crop after it is produced, and it is now up to the people ot
South to see that they get at least the cost of production for their cotton crop.
Reasons Why the Price of
Cotton Should Advance
The Bureau report which comes out today
will probably show a considerable decrease in
the estimated number of sales for the 1920
crop under the last estimate, this would mean
that the 1920 crop is the sixth short crop
that the world has had. This in itself is a
sufficient reason for a high price on cotton.
Furthermore, most of the cotton held over
from last year is extremely low grade cotton.
Much of the cotton this year is of a low grade,
and much of it will be left in the fields. In
fact because of the very low price of the in-
ferior grades of cotton and the high cost of
picking a great many farmers are leaving this
in the fields. This will reduce the estimate
on tho 1920 crop by many hundreds of thou-
sands of bales. The low temperature and early
frosts will alSn reduce the cotton production
for 1920.' Aside from the fact that the cost
of producing the 1920 cotton crop has been
estimated to be 40c or more, and that the
southern planter is entitled to at least the
cost of production, there are many reasons
why his cotton should bring this price or more.
Above all, the spinners can afford to pay 40c
a pound for raw cotton and still make a profit
and allow a reduction over former prices to
the consuming public.
NOTICE
This advertising is appearing in leading
southern newspapers. It is being underwritten
and paid for by my firm, Rumble & Wensel
Co., of Natchez. Miss. I am doing this to
further the work of the American Cotton
Association. With our publicity campaign of
1916 and 1919 we whipped the bear operators
and manipulators to a frazzle. With $100,000
more available this morning, I believe that I
could help save the South a half a billion to
a billion dollars. If you believe this publicity
ought to be carried on and are willing to help,
wire your contribution to Theo. V. Wensel,
Natchez, Miss.
Stand Behind The
American Cotton Association
This great organization is the only friend cotton has j=
had in the last 60 days. It is the only organization tak- =
ing concerted action to help the cotton farmer and those
interested in cotton. The American Cotton Association =
needs the active support of every cotton interest: Every ^
local branch of the association should have 100% mem- 3
bership. If you are not already a member join your =
local branch today. Get into the fight and back up these =
big men who are using their best efforts, their brains —
and their time to see that you get a legitimate price j=j
for your cotton. =5
Adopt Their Recommendations--- g
Retire 25% of Your Crop Until
May, June, July, 1921
The American Cotton Association has recommended |||
that all owners and holders of cotton take off the market ^
25r,'c of their high grade cotton and hold it until May,
,Tune and July, 1921, unless before that time they can =
get a remunerative price equal or exceeding 40c per —
pound tho price recommended by the association as ==
the value of 1920 crop. =Ej
PLEASE REPRINT
While this advertising is appearing in many South- =
ern metropolitan newspapers and is being circulated ==
broadcast, yet it can reach only a small portion of the =
people. I am, therefore, asking that every merchant, ==
banker, or cotton producer, who sees this will endeavor =
to have it copied or reprinted and circulated among the =
people with whom he does business, and also have it ^
reproduced in his local daily or county weekly. Pay for =
it yourself, if necessary. The expense will be small. It EE
means "much to you individually, your country and the ^
entire South that the message conveyed here be brought
home to every man, woman and child in the South. =
TIIEO V. WENSEL, President ||
Rumble & Wensel Co., Natchez, Miss.
Former Chairman of the Cotton Publicity Committee ^
of the campaigns of 1916 and 1919. ^
President of the Adams County, Miss., Local Branch ==
of American Cotton Association. ==
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