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OKEMAH SEMI-WEEKLY HERALD
Tuesday January 8 1935
Okemah Semi-Weekly Herald
Covers Okfuskee County Like Sunshine
A E E L
BARROW & WILLIAMSON
Editors and Publishers
Issued Tuesday Afternoon and Friday After-
noon at 121 North 3rd Street Okemah Oklahoma
Telephone 522
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the post office at Okemah Oklahoma Under Act
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COUNTY
MEMBER 1934
It locks now as though taxes will have to be
raised in order to meet the crying needs of the
people of the state Property taxes are as high as
they should be and other revenues for getting the
money must be sought out Mere than likely the
sales tax the gross production tax and the income
tax will be raised but the legislature should leave
Slff any further increase in the gasoline tax It is
hoo high now
The president is going after the holding com-
jpanies and their methods of pyramiding stock of
corporations which they were formed to take over
City Manager For Okemah
The next important evemt so far as cam-
paigns go is the city election to be held in April
Much of interest and importance to the citi-
zens will transpire in the coming year and it i
imperative that safe responsible men be selected
to look after the city’s well being during this time
We suggest that earnest thought be given to
the city manager idea for Okemah
From the experience of other towns about cur
size and pities or? the state we hear very definite
approval of the city manager plan The savings
effected in some cases have represented the dif-
ference between bankruptcy and an income suf-
ficient to pay all indebtedness in cash as it is
created and this in the face of lower valuations
Bind less taxes
We suggest that the Chamber of Commerce
the Kiwanis Club and the American Legion ap-
point committees to look into the matter cf a city
manager and make comparison with other cities
that have adopted the plan
Whatever is necessary to be done should be
accomplished and presented' to the people for their
approval at the coming city election
We believe that much more for the good of
the town could be accomplished by adopting the
city manager plan
If the city manager idea can 'help Okemah
then we are in favor cf legislation that will put
it in effect in the county
The president’s message was a characteristic
Roosevelt message 'He gave assurance of employ-
ment for all who want to work and added confi-
dence which is gaining momentum every day
Governor Marland will be inauguarated on
Monday January 14 1935 A movement is on foot
to have a float from Okfuskee county in the mon-
ster parade on that day Donations should be made
for this float which must make a fine showing be-
cause the speaker cf the house of representatives
is our own Leon C Phillips and we must lead the
procession
The Fifteenth legislature opened at noon Tues-
day and the retiring governor delivered his
final message to that body at noon today Gover-
nor Marland will become governor on Monday
January 14 he will deliver his message and the
New Deal plans to the legislature
Political Pot Shots
By BERT HODGES
I travel about enough in my car
to know something of the cause
eff the great number of automobile
accident ninety percent of which
could be avoided with sensible
sane careful driving I fully be-
lieve that a very great number of
these accidents can be directly
charged to two faults one of
which is plainly chargeable to the
truck drivers and the other to the
motorist bent cn passing fast mov-
ing cars in the face of the danger
so visibly stamped by the white
lines Truck drivers feeling safe
in the cab of tons of rolling power
and weight are growing so care-
less that light cars are frequently
forced to leave the pavement to
avoid sideswiping With a rough
curb or during wet weather this
is exceedingly dangerous The
motorist that “takes a chance" to
cross the white line hoping that
the road around the curve or just
over the hill will be clear Is pro-
bably the more dangerous of the
two and were it not for the dang-
er he places his innocent fellow
motcrist in his flagrant misuse of
the road endangering himself
alome would not be so bad Much
might be done about this with
proper legislation Drastic action
cannot come too quickly to suit
me
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WILL BEHELD AT
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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9 1935
Jewel Theatre
As this is a short practical course
we suggest that you be on hand early
and get the benefit of both the educa-
tional features and entertainment
SEE AND HEAR—
The New Power Farming Picture—
“PARTNERS”
—A Full Hour of Entertainment
and Education
LEARN ALL ABOUT THE IM-
PROVED JOHN DEERE MODEL
D TRACTOR
Okfuskee County Hardware Co
OKEMAH OKLAHOMA
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WHO’S IT?
By “BAFFLES"
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We have some friends and they
are real folk who live in the
country miles from Okemah A
husband and wife She is a woman
who does 'lot of work in one of
our churches and ia never absent
from Sunday school nor church
services the weather permitting
her getting into town — she is also
active in club and civic organiza-
tions 4n invitation to their
home is one not to be turned
down as you are assured of a de-
lightful time — this particular
lady has quite a talent for read-
ing The husband of this pair is cne
who is quite unusually successful
as a farmer on a large scale his
products being shipped to the
four corners of the Uinited States
He can most always be found in
his car going some place alwflys
busy Who are they 7 Guess and
try to win the ticket to the Cry-
stal Theatre where you will be
sure to see the very best pictures
shown anywhere
Answer to previous sketch:
C A HOPE
Obis Cargile won the ticket to
the Crystal Theatre Others giv-
ing iihe correct answers were
Mrs H G Slaughter Betty Jo
Thurman A F Brandon Helen
Waul Gloria Featherstone Dor-
othy Novotny and Marie Nixon
No longer are hard surfaced
roads a luxury
They are now a necessity in all
lines of business
Today the automobile tre truck
and the tractor are vital factors
in every community
The truck is employed exten-
sively in nearly every line of busi-
ness The tractor has helped in farm-
ing in road work in ihauling and
has helped and increased the busi-
ness of the business farmer and
the city business man
The business man depends upon
his automobile for work and for
pleasure
Both in business and pleasure
good roads are used the year
around
Good roads bring the markets
closeg to the cities the towns and
forming sections and facilitate de-
liveries GOOD ROADS HAVE EX-
PANDED THE TERRITORIES
O’? THE JOBBER AND THE
MANUFACTURER AND SAVE
THE FARMER TIME AND
MONEY IN GETTING HIS PRO-
DUCTS TO MARKETS WHEN
THE MARKETS ARE RIGHT
It pleased me very much to
learn that in all probability Lee
Nichols editor of the Record at
Bristow will be a member of the
state board cf affairs under the
Marland administration I am re-
liably informed that the job has
been offered to him I hope he ac-
cepts It is such appointments as
this that lends credence to an ad-
ministration oOo
With so many people earnestly
looking for a place to make some
kind of a crop the coming year
and so much acreage that is idle
it seems to me that the land own-
er and these people should get
together I am doing some of this
very kind of business and find that
it is mutually beneficial If an
ordinary owner of some cheap
lands like myself can do this
there are others with much more
land that earn do the same thing
If there are no improvements on
your land buy a cheap oil field
shack move it on ithe land fix it
up a little and see how real ap-
preciative of your interest will be
the man that really wants to do
something
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I do not know Hugh Johnson so
well personally but I do know
his mother and I knew his father
the late Samuel L Johnson and
for these reasons am bound to take (
Hugh’s side of the controversy he
is having with Mr Richberg or
whatever his name is Hugh’s
dad and I fought side by side in
many a battle in the Oklahoma
legislature There never was a
“straighter shooter” and a harder
fighter than was the late state
senator Samuel L Johnson When
he told you what you could de-
pend upon in so far as he was
concerned you could just go on
about your business and forget it
He would do just that
oOo
Some twenty thousand people
were killed and approximately
seven hundred thousand more were
injured during the year 1933 in
automobile accidents I wonder
WHEN WORLDS
By EDWIN BALMER
and PHILIP WYLIE
COLLIDE
Osmrrisht W Edwin Btlmsr ft Philip Writs
WNO Ssrrlcs
SYNOPSIS
David Ransdell aviator hat been
commissioned at Capetown to de-
liver a consignment of photographic
platea to Dr Colo Hendron In New
York Tony Drake calls at the Ben-
drons apartment Ransdell arrives
and Eve Hendron with whom Tony
le deeply In love Introduce! Tony
to Ransdell A statement by Hen-
dron says that Professor Bronson
hat discovered two planets ap-
proaching the earth The result of
the Inevitable collision must be the
end of this world The approaching
bodies are referred to as Bronson
Alpha and Bronson Beta To devise
means of transferring to Bronson
Beta Is occupying the minds of the
members of the League of the Last
Days Evs outlines to Tony the Idea
of the Space 8hlp which Hendron
has In contemplation Tony rounds
up suitable men and women to build
the ship Hendron has not been able
to And a metal which will with-
stand the heat and pressure of
atomic energy to be used In pro-
pelling the Space Ship The tides
weep to the Appalachians on the
east and to the mountains on the
Paolflo aide and quakes change the
entire surface of the earth The
Hendron settlement where the
Space Ship Is being built survives
the earthquakes Bronson Alpha col-
lides with the moon and wipes It out
CHAPTER VII— Continued
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"That’s fine” Tony snld
At the power house a voice hailed
b!:n
Voti’re Just In time Mr Drake"
“What for?"
“Come In” Tony entered the pow-
er house The man conducted him
to a walled panel and pointed to
a switch “Pull her down’
Tony pulled At once all over the
cantonment obscurity was anni-
hilated by the radiance of countless
electric lights The electrician who
had summoned Tony grinned
“We’re using a little emergency en-
gine and only about a quarter of
the lights of the lines are operat-
ing That’s all we've had time to
put In order but It’s better than
this d — n’ gloom"
Tony’s hand came down firmly on
the man’s shoulder "It’s marvel-
ous You boys work In shifts now
All of you need sleep"
The electrician nodded "We will
Some of the Me shots are Inside
Shall I tell them to come out to
see you?"
An Idea suddenly struck Tony
“Look here Why shouldn’t I go
and see them If I want to? Why Is
It you expect them to come out and
see me?”
“You’re the boss aren’t you?”
“What makes you think I’m the
boss?”
The man looked at him quizzically
"Why It said so In the Instruction
book we got when we were all sent
out here Everybody got a copy It
said you were second In command
In any emergency to Mr Hendron :
and this Is an emergency Isn’t It?’’
Tony conquered his surprise It
flashed through his mind that Hen-
dron was training him to be in com-
mand of those who stayed behind
and launched the Space Ship He
was conscious of a naive pride at
this Indication of the great sci-
entist's confidence tn him "I won’t
bother the men here" he said "Just
so long as we get as many lights
as possible as fast as possible"
Next Tony went to the kitchen
Fires were going in two stoves :
more coffee was ready the supply
of sandwiches had overtaken the
demand nnd kettles of soup aug-
mented It Taylor was still In
charge and he made his report as
soon as he saw Tony
"The big storehouses are half un-
derground as you probably know
and I don't think the food la them
has been hurt much although It has
been shaken up There’s apparent-
ly a large herd of live stock and a
lot of poultry about a quarter of
a mile In the woods I’ve sent men
there to take charge They’re put-
ting up barbed-wire for the time
being The water and mad spoiled
whatever they got Into but most of
the ttuff was In big containers The
main that carried the water from
the reservoir Is smashed and I guess
the water In the reservoir Isn’t any
good anyway I’m boiling all that I
use but somebody has Just got the
bright Idea of nslng the fire ap-
paratus and hose from some of those
yonng lakes"
“You've done d — d well Taylor"
Tony said "Do yon think you can
carry on for a few hours more?’’
“Sure I'm good lor a week of
this"
When Tony went outdoors again
It was four o’clock though he had
no means of knowing the time Once
again he noticed that the air was
cooler
For the moment calm had come
The Bronson Bodies not only had
passed and withdrawn toward the
sun bet they shone no longer In
the night sky If Atmospheric con-
ditions permitted they would be vis-
ible dimly by day but only by day
The night came on dear — dear
and almost calm The mists had
settled and the clouds moved away
Dust and gases hung in the air still
the stars showed
The moon too should be shining
Tony thought Tonight there should
be a full moon hut only stars were
in the sky Had be reckoned
wrong?
He was standing alone looking
up when some one stopped beside
him
"What Is It Tony?" Hendron
said
“Where's the moon tonight?"
“Where — that’s It: where? That’s
what we’d like to know — exactly
vhat happened We had to miss It
you see: probably nowhere in the
world were conditions that permit-
ted observation when the collision
occurred nnd what a thing to seel”
"The collision 1" said Tony
"When Bronson Alpha took out
the moon I I thought you knew It
was going to happen Tony I
thought I told you"
"Brouson Alpha took out the
moon! You told me that It
would take out the world when we
met It next on the other side of
the sun but you didn’t mention the
moon 1"
"Didn’t I? I meant to It was
minor of course but I'd have given
much to have been able to see It”
Tony was silent Strange to stare
Into a sky Into which never again
the moon would rise I
“However" said Hendron "when
the world encounters Bronson Al-
pha we’ll see that I hope— from
space if we succeed with our ship
— from space on our way to Bron-
son Beta What a show that will
be Tony from space with no clouds
to cut It oft I And then landing on
that other world whose cities we
have seen!"
“Yes” said Tony
Through the darkness ©f that
moon-lost night Tony continued to
work He mustered new gangs for
the dreary tasks of salvage and of
rehabilitating and reconstructing
the shelters
When light began again to filter
through the darkly streaming heav-
ens Hendron re-awoke He found
Tony drunk with fatigue carrying
on by sheer prTort of will and re-
fnslnc: to rest
Herd -I m called some of the men
who hud been taking Tony’s com-
mands and had him carried bodily
to bed
Tony opened bis eyes One by
one he collected all the disjointed
memories of the past days He per-
ceived that he was lying on a couch
In Hendron’s offices In the best en4
of the machine shop and labora
tory building a slight noise In on
corner of the room attracted his at
tentton A man sat there at I
desk quietly scribbling a tall
very thin man with dark curly ball
and long lashed blue eyes Hll
age might have been thirty-five— 01
fifty He bad a remarkably htgl
forehead and slim tactile hands Hi
smiled at Tony and spoke with I
trace of accent
"Good morning Mr Iafc ft Ii
not necessary to ask If you slept
well"
Tony swung his feet to the floor
"Yes I think I did sleep well Wi
haven’t met have we?"
The other man shook his head
“No we haven’t: but I’ve heard
about you I am Sven Bronson"
“Good Lord 1" Tony walked acrosi
the room and held out his hand
'I'm surely delighted to meet thl
man who — " he hesitated
The Scandinavian smiled "Yol
were going to say tbe man re
sponsible for all this’ "
Tony chuckled shook Bronson’!
hand and then looked down at thl
bedraggled garments which only
partially covered him "I’ve got tl
find some clothes and get shaved
“It's all been prepared" Bronsoi
said "In the private office there’i
a bath of sorts ready for yon and
some clean clothes and a razor"
"Somebody has taken terribly
good care of me" Tony said Hi
yawned and stretched “I feel fine"
At the door he hesitated “What’i
the news by the way? How arl
things? How is everybody?”
Bronson tapped his desk with hll
pencil "Everybody Is doing nicely
There are only a dozen people left
In the hospital now Yonr friend
Taylor has the commissary com-
pletely rehabilitated The radio sta-
tion has been functioning again"
"Good Lord P Tony exclaimed “1
forgot all about the radio station
last night — what day Is this?"
"This Is the twenty-ninth” Tony
realized that he had been asleep foi
twenty-four hours “The man Id
the wireless division went to work
on the station Immediately Any-
way not much has come In thongtt
we picked up a station In New Mex-
ico and a very feeble station some
where In Ohio The New Mexlcd
station reports some sort of ex-
traordinary phenomena togethel
with a violent eruption of a vol-
canic nature in their district: thl
one In Ohio merely appealed stead-
ily for help"
"Only two stations In all this
country?" Tony said
"The static is so tremendous still
that It would be impossible to heal
anything from any foreign country)
and doubtless other stations ars
working which we will pick up
later as well as many which will bi
reconditioned In the future: but so
far we have received only two
calls”
After having bathed shaved and
dressed In his own clothes which
had been brought from his quarters
in the partly demolished men’s dor-
mitory Tony went to the labora-
tories and found Hendron
"By George you look fit Tony I"
were Hendron’s first words “Eve ll
Impatiently waiting for you She’i
at the dining hall”
Tony found Eve cheerful and
bright-eyed She went out on ths
long veranda with him
“I beard you were safe Eve"
Tony said “and then when I conld
hear no more I supposed you wen
safe You bad to be safe”
“Why Tony?”
"If anything was to keep any
meaning for me" He stared al
her himself amazed nt what he said
“The moon’s gone 1 suppose you
know 1"
“Yes It was known that It would
go"
"And we — the world goes Ukl
the moon with the return of Bron-
son Alpha !”
“That’s still true Tony" she said
standing before him and qtiiverlni
as he did
He gestured about "They all knofl
that now?”
"Yes" she said "They’ve beei
told it"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
what the figures will be for the
year 1934 And to think that a
veiy great majority of these could
have been prevented Let the Ok-
lahoma legislature do it’s part by
providing highway traffic police-
men 1 £
oOo
Tho’ sleigh bells were ringing
and the snow and ice looked good
from a warm pullman window up
north it was good to get back to
Oklahoma from a trip to Minne-
sota last week We have our cold
spells but feir the most part the
weather in this state is mighty
fine
oOo
One of the biggest scraps be-
fore the next congress will be the
bonus bill advocated by congress-
man Patman of Texas
Fallow Land
Cotton grown on land where cct-
ton was plowed up in 1933 yielded
264 pounds per acre in 1934 com-
pared with 36 pounds on similar
land not fallowed the year before
on the farm cf R R Couger near
Frederick Tillman county Tom
Moirris county agent says this is
typical of the experience of hun-
dreds of farmers in the county
Summer fallowing pays in Till-
i man county he concludes
GOING TO
INAUGURAL?
(Continued from page one)
official county automobiles will
carry the chairmen and vice-chairmen
of the Democratic central
committee and of the State Lea-
gue of Young Democrats cf that
county Special cars will also be
provided for the district officials
of those two organizations
In order to aid those desiring
to obtain information relative to
plans for the inaugural Page’s
committee has established head-
quarters in the lobby of the Black
Hotel here Delegations which
may be in Oklahoma City on in-
augural matters are invited to
visit this headquarters or tele-
phone The inaugural ceremonies will
be at the Sc-uth side of 'he Capi-
tol Mr Marland will take the
oath of office from Chief Justice
Fletcher Riley of the state su-
pireme court Other elective state
officials will take their oaths im-
mediately afterwards Thousands
are expected to hear Mr Mar-
land’s inaugural address and' a
loud speaker system will be in-
stalled in order that all may hear
distinctly
Firom 8 to 9 p m there will be
an official reception for Governor
and Mrs Marland in the Blue
room This will be the occasion
for the new Governor and Mrs
Marland to receive the official
state family — members of the
legislature all elective state of-
ficials and their wives and im-
mediate close friends
Immediately following the re-
ception will be the grand march
led by the governor and the
state’s first lady and then the
inaugural ball A large number of
orchestras and bands have been
promised for the inaugural and
many of these are expected to
play for the various dances to be
held on the different floors of the
Capitol that night
Turtles on Desolate Isles
The desolate Galapagos Islands
were once known as the Enchanted
Isles perhaps because they served
as safe havens for buccaneers and
whalers They are 16 In number
and although discovered by the
Spaniards they all bear English
names They belong to Ecuador
Galapago means tortoise The Is-
lands are the home of vast num-
bers of turtles some weighing 600
pounds
The nickelplating gives no power
to the engine
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