Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 3, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA LABOR UNIT
Scandalmonger Is
Enemy to Success
By REV. ELMER E. H1GLEY.
Denver, Colo.
STOCK TIN
TO TDUR STATE
SANTA FE SYSTEM TO COOPER-
ATE WITH FACULTY OF
A. & M. COLLEGE.
LECTURES PLANNED IN EACHTOWN
The scandal monger is the
leading element in the de-
struction of success. Suc-
cess depends in a ^ large
measure on reputation; rep-
utation is what men and
women think of us; thought
is expressed by words, words bv the tongue; unguarded words, like the
sped arrow, once sent out, cannot be returned, slay reputation and blast
success.
.The power of speech is one of God's best gifts to man. It is by
his ability to talk that man is separated from all creation below hira.
Language is man's alone. All other animals are tongue-tied- While the
tongue is the most important member of man's body, it is likewise the
most abused of them all. Fashioned to serve his highest uses, it is often
employed to accommodate his lowest.
The tongue is the index of character, and, because of its diversified
uses there is no faculty man possesses requiring more wisdom and grace
in its management than that of speech. A Christian tongue indicates a
Christian character; a petty tongue a petty soul. It is deplorable that ^ sa'^a in Oklahoma dur-
the reputation becomes the target of loose and insinuating speech. he . ^ la8t twQ weeiig Q[ January by
reputation of the surgeon for skill, the merchant for fair dealing, the I the railway company in conjunction
banker for carefulness and honesty—in short, the reputation of any man with Oklahoma A. and M. col g
in any pursuit is a present valuable possession with a future earning capac-
ity and is, consequently, of so much greater value than the purse in hand.
"Trash" is Shakespeare's designation of the purse in hand against the
■working capital of a good name.
Words are living things. They-live in their influence. A thought
unexpressed continues to abide in the secret chambers of the mind and j stock, the growing of alfalfa and other
may be there mastered by the will, but expressed, it is given wings for . h e" t er' Vt o i' y' t r a vers e d by
"the never ending flight of future days." | the Santa Fe lines.
Man's uttered words are being transeribed into the pages of his life j train will be matye up of one
and become a part of the record of his soul's existence, either to witness flatcar from which the lectures will
for his good or ill. Falsity upon the lips tends to produce falsity in the ^/^.^^ir'one UvesTock car, one
life. Let the heart be set on "whatsoever things are true and of good ^ demonstration car. one poultry car.
PLAN BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT
TWO HUNDRED FAMILIES TO
FORM OKLAHOMA COLONY.
Arizona Farmers Want One Thousand
A_re« of Shallow Water Land
Near Oklahoma City.
m
Train Starts In Logan County Jan-
uary 19; Tour Ends at Perry
On the Last Day of
Month.
! cording to an agreement between L.
T. Bacon, assistant general coloniza
| tion agent of the Santa Fe. and B. C
Pittuck, dean of the college extension
division of the A. and M. college.
I The object of the special train will
be to encourage the raising of live
report," and the tongue, as an index of character, will be witness to
worthy soul.
Good Morals and
New Dress Fashions
By C JULES SCHMIDT, Indianapolis, Ind.
In regard to the much-
agitated question of modesty
and immodesty of woman's
people of history have been the most highly moral and 1 am unwilling
to believe that in classic times, when the figure was so well understood as
to make possible the works of Phidias and Praxitiles, the people could have
been any less decent than, for instance, at the overdressed courts of some
of the old French kings.
It seems to me that the first consideration in dress should be health,
and in this connection we should remember the agitation against tight
lacing of the waist which was so recently carried on and which fortunately
is no longer necessary. This, to my mind, is a great advance, and I should
regret to see this sort of distortion taken up again.
Condemnation of styles which reveal the figure is, I believe, largely
due to our being unaccustomed to them, for I am sure that the Creator
made us right, so that we need not be ashamed of his work, but rather
of perverted minds which think evil, and by so doing make evil.
To Obtain Correct
Weights and Measures
By R. EL WESTERN. Indianapolis, lnd.
one car for demonstration of domestic
science and other work of interest to
women, one baggage car, a portion of
which will be devoted to work relative
to animal diseases and one lecture car
for use during inclement weather.
Two weeks will be occupied by the
special train in making the thirtv two
dress it seems to me there is j scheduled stops, at each of which spe-
, ii ! cial lectures on the subjects to be
much needless apprehension. | {he trajn wl]] ,)e furntehed
It is by no means clear that j by A antl M college and the Santa Fe
the most thickly clothed \ railroad company.
j The livestock, poultry and demon-
stration equipment carried on the
tra«n will be furnished by the A. and
I M college.
The itinerary of the train is as fol-
lows:
' Monday. January 19—Crescent, 9 to
j 11:30 a. m.; Marshall. 12 10 to 2:40
i p. m.; Fairmont, 3:20 p. m. to 5:30
| p. m.
I Tuesday, January 20—Nash, 9 a. m.
j to 12 m.; Jet. 12:20 p. m. to 2 20
I p. m.; Cherokee. 3:00 p. m. to night,
j Wednesday, January 21—Capron.
9 a. m. to 11 a. m.; Alva, 11:20 a. nv
i to 2'20 p. m.; Waynoka, 3 00 p. ni
to night
Thursday, January 22—Shattuck. 9
a. m to 11:00 a m.; Fargo, 12 noon
to 2:00 p. m.; Woodward, 2:35 p. m.
to night.
Friday. January 23—Medford. 9 a.
Two hundred families want to pur-
chase tracts for shallow water irriga-
tion farming near Oklahoma City.
Frank Holmes of San Simon. Ariz., has
written to H. M.' Cottrell, agricultural
commissioner of the Hock Island linos,
that he is interested in the possibility
of shallow water irrigation in this dis-
trict. as described in the Southwest
Trail, and is ready to purchase 1,000
acres for locatiou by the 200 families, i
At a Chamber of Commerce lunch-
eon Mr. Cottrell suggested that a j
survey be made of the underground
water resources of this county and
the data obtained to be compiled and I
filed, for use of homeseekers.
"In the first two hours that I was
in Oklahoma City, ten business men
asked me why the Rock Island lines
were not bringing a large number of
homeseekers to Oklahoma," said Cot-
trell at the luneheon. "To attract
someseekers here you must be able to
give them accurate information con-
cerning your resourcts.
"If homeseekers have to come here
and hunt opportunities and dig out for
themselves a practical knowledge of
irrigation they will come slowly. In
order to hurry them, the Chamber of
Commerce should secure accurate
data and file it for the use of every
hemeseeker.
E R. Dennett, horticulturist of the
Rock Island lines, has made a rough
survey of the North Canadian river
valley, lie estimates that fifty fam-
ilies per mile along the length of the
valley can be supported and will grow
prosperous by shallow water irrigation
farming.
Pror. Bennett stated that if the
necessary survey of water resources
was made he would make his head-
quarters here for a year and assist the
truck fanners and irrigationists in the
system of cultivation that has de-
veloped the northern Colorado dis-
tricts and the Michigan irrigated dis-
tricts.
Cottrell states that the Business
Men's League of Wichita has taken
up the same proposition of a water
survey and have pushed it. "The
league," he writes, "has already se-
cured a preliminary survey of under-
ground water supply and has arrang-
ed to have forty acres put under irriga-
tion for a demonstration in truck rais-
ing. We are hunting for a man for
the league to take charge of this dem-
onstration farm."
EM
ANZ1BAR! Isn't there magic in ' are said to be ninety years old, al-
that name? It calls up to me though most of the clove plantations
a vision of Kastern splendor, on Zanzibar Island date from 1872,
of nabobs, of gold and mvrrh when a terriflle cyclone swept over it,,
and frankincense, of stately doing fearful damage to the trees,
palaces, of harems peopled by dark An Interesting story Is told of an.
eyed Georgian and Circasslon girls In American ship captain whose vessel
silken trousers and Jeweled turbans, lay in the harbor at the time of the
lolling beside fountains whose water tornado, and which weathered the
ever plashed and made music In their storm. Realizing that the clove trees
ears; of gorgeous tropical nights, of | were practically wiped out, he crowd-
heavens "thick Inlaid with patlnes of ed all sail for Aden, then the terminus
bright gold." of gentle breezes laden of the ocean cable line, lie brought
with all the perfumes of Araby the | his ship to anchor about a mile from
FEW FOREIGN-BORN FARMERS
blest.
Hut the "many changing years," have
made their difference here as else-
where, writes A. W. Weddell In Los
Angeles TimeB. And It is a far cry
from now to the time when Vasco de
(lama's victorious galleons swept
around the Cape of C.ood Hope and
planted the Portuguese standard along
these Bhores.
After 300 Years.
Rut even after 300 years of contact,
more or less frequent, with the West-
ern world, the country presents today
much of charm and beauty, "a land
where It is always afternoon," with
every by-path leading to peaceful yeB- j
terdays.
No longer do strangely-garbed Euro- i
peans gaze from the decks of stranger |
vessels over an alien land, yet still
the harbor Is peopled with dhows from
Maskat and Larnu and the shores of
India, peopled by dark, swarthy na-
tives, who bring down shawls, and
rugs and corded bales of Persian and
Arabian and Indian products, and bear
away cloves and Ivory and copra.
Prior to the building of the Uganda
Railway, which pierces the heart of
the continent from Mombasa. Zanzi-
bar Town was the great entrepot for
I this whole coast and the hardy mer-
I chant or explorer who desired to gain
the interior must perforce come to
; this place for his porters, and also to
i gain the influence the powerful
Sultan in placating the many savage
I tribes lying between him and his
destined goal.
I The entire Island Is eloquent of the
1 names of great explorers and travel-
ers— Mungo Park. Livingstone, Stan-
ley, Emin Pasha, Burton and a host of
others. The house which Livingstone
occupied on his several visits here Is
the town, himself took a boat, and
rowed to shore. Gaining the telegraph
office he sent a cipher dispatch to his
principal in America, telling him the
newB, and suggesting the "cornering'
of the cloves In the world. Tills was
done, and my chronicler Informed mo
that the old sea dog never had to
make another voyage.
The clove trees begin to bud about
January or February, and the picking
Is done any time after July, continuing
for about four months, as the trees
ripen irregularly. When the cloves
have been picked they are exposed on
mats to the sun for six or seven days,
and are then sent to the customhouse
where the government exacts an ex-
port duty of 25 per cent. In kind.
The crop Is a very uncertain one,
a heavy yield one year, and compara-
tively nothing the next. The bulk of
the cloves are bought by American
and German and Indian firms, and are
sent to Bombay, Hamburg. London
| and New York. Most of the cloves
are used in distilling oil of cloves,
which In turn Is employed In the man-
ufacture of drugs, perfumes, confec-
tioneries. etc.
Another great product of Zanzibar
is copra, which Is the dried Interior of
the cocoanut. The cocoanut trees
grow throughout the Sultanate with-
out cultivation; land Is sold by the
number of cocoanut trees on It. A
tree will yield from 100 to 120 nuts a
year; the crop is gathered about every
four months. The nuts are split and
dried In the buii for several days,
when the product Is ready for ship-
ment. France consumes most of the
copra, which is used in the manufac-
ture of soap, oil cakes, etc.
A distinctive feature of Zanzibar Is
the beautiful carved door seen In
to 11 a. m.
Women everywhere would
do well to follow the ex-
ample of the good house-
keepers of my town in a
matter of vital concern to
every family.
What they did there was
to form a protective association for the purpose of securing honest weights
and measures. Each member of the association pledges herself that she
■will weigh and measure the commodities she buys in stores or the market
place, and if any article is found short of the standard it is to be reported 1:30 p. m.; Wanette
and formal complaint made. J wtdnesday, January 28—Byars, 9 a.
The dealers, finding out that the women folk meant business, resolved m. to 11 a. m.; Pauls Valley. 12 noon
that honestv was the best policy, and in one town at least a pound is j to 2:30 p. m.; Davis, 3:15 p. m to
now actually recognized in retail commerce as the equivalent of 1G ounces, | nl®hh^reday> January 29-Rulphur. 9
whereas 14 or 15 ounces used to be thought a sufficient approximation. a m a m . j>aoli. 12:50 p m. to
It is a day of high prices, and it is an outrage for the consumer to j 2:^0 p. m.; Wayne, 3:15 p m to
not only pay these, but to get victimized in addition by fraudulent scales j nighty „ a m
and measures. ! to 11 a m.; Edmor.d, 1 p. m. to night
But, as in the Indianapolis case, it is a matter that the women of j Saturday. January 31—Mulhall. 9
any community can rectify if they will exert the proper effort.
Census Shows 35 Per Cent in Okla^
homa Are Native Whites.
m. to 11 a. m.; Blackwell. 12 noon to
2 p m Tonkawa. 2:30 p. m. to nlphi ! Prlor t0 the Thirteenth Census no
Saturday, January 24- Ponca City, 9 I attempt was made to secure informa
a. m. to 1 p. m.; Newkirk, 1:30 p. m
to night.
Monday, January 26—Kaw City. [
a. m. to 12 noon; Fairfax, 1 p. m. t*
2:35 p. m.; Skedee. 3 p. m. to nirrht
Tuesday, Januarv 27—Spark* i> a
tion on the farm schedules concern-
ing the nativity of farmers. The tabi.*
which follows shows the color and na-
tivity of farm operators by character
of tenure for 1010:
No. Per. Ct.
Meeker, 11°0 a. m. to j Native white
3 30 p
....161,773 85.1
to | Foreign-born white.... 7,748 4.1
Negro and other non-
white 20,671 10.9
100.0
Quick and Startling
Effects of Hearsay
By ROBERT P. GREEN. New York
a, m. to 12 noon; Perry,
night.
It is curious to reflect on Bees on Oklahoma Farms
the effect that mere rumor | number or Oklahoma farms re-
porting bees increased from 3 438 in
1900 to 4,816 in 1910. or 40.1 per cent.
The number of colonies of bees de-
creased from 20,137 to 19,413. or 3.6
per cent, and their value increased
from $45,423 to $64,261, or 41.3 per
that he will save a nation of slaves, etc.
In a manner not at all unlike this the rumor that an investigation
•was about to be made of the school system of a certain great city brought
about a gTeat deal of activity on the part of responsible folk.
Plausible explanations have been devised, so 'tis said, for the waste
of public money in training young men for teaching and then coolly telling
them to "Go west, young man," and the continued counting out of normal
college graduates after four years' learning as opposed to two years in
training school will doubtless have a reason rendered if called for.
The whole good old vessel, "Education," is shipshape and ready to
repel boarders and inquisitors, when lo! we read there will be no questions
asked, and it's all a false alarm.
can have. We all know the 1
stock market breaks if some
magnate of finance says
gloomy word or a steward of
the public welfare declares j j.',",', "The average value of bees per
farm reporting was $13.21 in 1900 and
$13.34 in 1010. Less than three farms
in every hundred keep bees. The re-
turns show the production of 140,234
pounds of honey, valued at $23,783,
and 1,388 pounds of wax, value, $313.
Co-Operation Is Put
to Strong 1 est
By JOHN B. EVERETT, New York
The co-operative store of
the Housewives' league in
Brooklyn has been closed, r
Demonstratoin Farms Located.
J. E. Payne, farm demonstrator for
the Frisco railroad, has located sev-
eral demonstration farms In the vicin-
ity of Frederick and others will be
added later.
W. S. Drumm. south, and one with
Frank W. Johnson, west of the city.
Others will be established with H. P.
Barnard and one one of Rev. Edwin
Brown's farms. Near Davidson farms
were chosen on G. H. Tatum's place
north of town, W. S. Parks and the
T. Coley places. Cotton, kafir,
Total 190,192
Of the farmers in Oklahoma, 169,521,
or practically nine-tenths, were
whites, and 20,671, or about one-tenth,
non-whites. All but 7,748 of the white
farmers were native born; of the non-
white farmers, 13,209, or about two-
thirds, were negroes; and the others,
with the exception of two Chinese and
one Japanese, were Indians.
Of the native white farmers, 57.2
per cent were reported as tenants,
while of the foreign born only 26.3
per cent occupy rented farms. Among
non-white farmers the tenants consti-
tuted 45.9 per ceut of the total num-
ber.
Of the 7,748 foreign-bom white j
farmers in Oklahoma in 1010, 3,015 j
were born in Germany; 1,391 in Kus- I
sia; 803 in Austria; 454 in England; !
441 in Canada; 285 in Ireland; 258 in ,
Sweden; 228 in Switzerland; 172 in j
Denmark; 140 in France; and 128 in j
Scotland. Other European countries
were represented by
farmers, and non-European countries,
other than Canada, by
til
NATIVE. VOMEJS IN rr.TlCrt CtRtMONY
still pointed out, and It is Baid that i
the older Swahllls never pass it with- !
out Balaaniing in memory of the daunt- ^
lets toul which once dwelt there. One
of the very last links between Living-
stone anil the Zanzibar of today is the
venerable Father Etienne llaur of the
every house. These have generally an
elaborate carved border, with verses
fiom the Koran introduced. The two
wings or the doors which are about
four inches thick, are studded with
brass, which gives back the rays of
the brilliant tropical sun.
Approached from the ocean the
total of 356 ! Roman Catholic Mission. II- --
' at Zanzibar ... 011 this coast for close j town presents a beautiful picture; the
10,000 Acres To Wheat.
Three-cars of seed wheat have been
sold to fanners near Olustee in tho
One is on the farm of [ past few weeks, all of It being plant-
ed. The acreage is expected to reach
10,000 in Jackson county.
but this does not mean that
the experiment has been a
failure. On the contrary,
efforts are already being
made for a new venture on a much larger scale.
Horace V. Bruce, who was one of those who financed the experiment,
says that it showed that housewives would co-operate, and that to get the
best results there should be a large system, say 2,000 retail terminal mar-
kets supplied by twenty railways, so that produce which was superabundant
at one point could be shipped to where it was needed.
For an enterprise on such a scale it is obvious that first-class directive
ability would be required.
maize and peanuts will be grown.
Pasturing Texas Cattle.
Farmers of Woods county are pas-
turing 12,000 head of cattle for Texas
; ranchmen this winter. The toll
j amounts to $18,000 monthly.
Even Weeds Have a Value.
Banker-Railroad Movement Started. I Gathering and shipping ' soapweeds"
The Southwest Oklahoma Bankers'! )R a m,w in(]ustry the oklahoma
association, co-operating with the j i>anhan<lle The weeds are used In
provement department of the Frisco jthe manufacture of rope and bagging.
Food For Thought.
railroad, is attempting to obtain a list
of farmers lr. southwest Oklahoma
who are feeding cattle or hogs and the
number of each, the farmers who have
feed and pasturage and need stock,
those who have alfalfa hay for sale
The Hugo Husonian ventures the
opinion that the Oklahoma farmer who
raised 100 bushels of sweet potatoes
ou each of 125 acres in cultivation
and the number of cows being milked land sold the crop for $1 per bushe*
by each farmer, together with the1 may not know much about the tariH
farmer's address. The Frisco will at question, but he could get a loan from
tempt to furnish cattle to those whoM hanker without gh'.ug a mortgage
peed them. I °a hla umle*
to a halt-century. It was he who, when
the body of Livingstone reached the
coast after its long trip on the shoul-
ders of the faithful native servants,
prepared the remains for burial.
Tippoo Tib's Palace.
The palace of Tippoo Tib Is also
pointed out. a huge pile, with a superb
door of which a picture gives but a
'aint idea.
In 1833 America negotiated a treaty j ve
with the Sultan ot
that time ruled over the
o* Zanzibar as well In 1830 our Hrst
consul was named, and from that lime
on the trade between America and the
Sultanate was active, our thrifty New-
England manufacturers and explorers
sending out the cloth known to every
native as "American!." and receiving
In return cloves, and gums and ivory
It will surprise many to know that
the Sultanate products perhaps nine
tenths of the cloves of the world In
climate and soil the two islands of
Zanzibar and Pemba seem peculiarly
adapted to the growing of this plant,
though It Is really a native of the
Moluccas, having been brought over
by the Sultan Syycd Said, nearly a
hundred years ago.
snow-white Arab houses are set
ugainst a background of soft tropical
green; lying cloBe to the shore are
tho hundreds of native dhows with
their quaint sails, while farther out,
In the deep waters, are the foreign
ships. A prominent building on the
water-front is the palace of the Sultan,
which suggests a hotel at one of our
Atlantic watering places, with its wide
randas and square lantern. Hack
Maskat who at j of the palace are the remains of the
Dominions old fort erect.-d by the Portuguese.
and here and there are to be seen the
fla^s of tin! consulates of the various
powers, conspicuous among them be-
ing the Stars and Stripes.
Snort From Old Timer.
An old timer on the Wichita board
of trade, when a young lady appeared
wearing one of those cutaway coats,
remarked: "1 never did admire those
coats. I was here during the grass-
hopper visitation In 1874, and every
time I see a woman wearing one of
those cutaway coats I think about a
doggone llocky mountain grasshopper
standing on Us hind feet. That coat
Is just the shapi' of a grasshopper!
Many of the treea wings. "—Kansas Ctty Star.
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