The Oklahoma News (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 204, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 25, 1929 Page: 4 of 12
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For all our clays are pased sway in thy wrath:
e spend our years ss a tale that Is WI:rt—Psalms
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m 17 notions about life are mach the same as
they are about treveling there la a good
deal of amusement on the road but after all
one tants to be at rest--Eouthey
Law and Custom
AWS are rules of conduct They existed
before the written word and before legiela-
tors judges and courts Tribe's had laws In
primitive times and when they were violated
the offenders were punished
The source of a law is the custom of the
people Certain things must be done for the
common good A citizen must reVect ertain
rights of his neighbors
No law has ever been enforeable which vio-
lated the customs of the people They must
accept a law to obey It If the people believe
that a law unjustly infringes on their freedom
of action or that It imposes penalties for what
In reality is not a crime they will ignore It and
resist it
Since these things are well known it is prob-
able that Richard t'iashburn Child acting presi-
dent of the nstionel crime commission need
have no fear that the president's law enforce-
ment commission will fail to distinguish between
"law on the books and social will as it is found
fact"
Child In a letter to George W Wickerham
chairman of the law enforcement COMMIA141011
says lt would be disastrous If the commission
failed to uphold this distinction
Respect for law c:bild says is based on sochil
will rather than engrossed words He says that
if at'a ardent dry sees a burglar entering the
home of his friend he will call the police If
he sees a bootlegger entering this same borne he
may call the police in this instance also But
in such a case he would be considered a cad
"The tragedy of the national infectien of dis-
respect for law may be Increased and not di-
minished by Insistence that all so called laws
stand upon one footing" Child writes
Wickersham himself as long ago as 15 years
had something to say on this subject
"As civilization progresses" he said in a pub-
lic address "a et cssity arises for rules to govern
the action of th tAividuals in the community
towaitt each other more than to protect the
group against the aggressions of other groups:
and as communities become more populous and
civilization more complex rules of conduct must
needa be Increasingly minute and specific: but
the fundamental principle guiding all successful
civilization roust be to preserve in as large a
measure as is consistent with the welfare of
the whole freedom of action In the individual
" All law to he effective must be based
on a broad sense of right It is this fact which
gives to the customary or unwritten law a great-
er sanctity in the minds of the people than acts
of the legislature
"The greatest safeguard of popular liberty
lies in the inherent respect for their law felt
by a self-governing people That respect
can exist only when the law is that which the
people establish 'at their free will' which is
just to all classes and which binds the hearts
and consciences of men to respect even the law
they violate"
Airmen—A New Era
(NNE of the peculiar things about human na-
ture is that it will accept almoot any kind
of change if the change comes unannounced
For instance: if a group of energetic restlem
young men should come on the scene and an-
nounce they were about to remake the whole
nation so that countless old custom' and habits
would be wiped out and all the cities and towns
would be moved closer together we probably
would resent It very firmly
But when they simply go ahead and do it
without saying anything about it we don't mind
—indeed we rather like it Instead oil defying
the young men who are pushing us bodily into
a new kind of society we applaud them
The aviators are doing Just exactly that When
they get through with us the United States
in common with the rest of the world will be
very different from its old self The change
probably will be for the better but ae won't
even realize that there Is a change until after It
is accompliahed
Read this little news dispatch from a recent
paper:
"Edmonton Alberta—When 'Pinch' Dickens
Edmonton flyer brought his monoplane to a
landing on the Edmonton flying field the other
evening be completed a notable flight of 1600
miles from Fort Good Hope on the rim of the
Arctic circle The plane carried a valuable con
aignment of furs from the northern parts"
In those two sentences there Is compressed a
volume about the new order that the evietors
are bringing
The outlying fur posts in the Canadian north
west have been for centuries among the Isolated
unattainable sections of the world Each
as separated from his neighbor by long days
of hard travel To get to civilization aas a task
that took weeks long canoe trips on lonely rivers
endless hikes across desolate waste lands night
alter night of aolitary camping in trackless forests
and limitless plains
Now young Mr Dickens gifted with the flip
nickname "Pinch" soars off in his monoplane—
anti puts the Arctic circle within 24 houra time
of the city of Edmonton Without saying any-
thing about It he hat simply taken the map of
northwestern Canada and made it shrink The
era of isolation and great distances Is at an end
forever
That is what all the airplanes are doing
though we don't often realize It The flyers are
bringing us closer together Our preeent form of
eociety was drawn up to fit a sstintry of long
journeys and viriely separated cities the air
planes are in a fair wey to make it as compact
as Holland
If the airmen declared themeelves in advance
we might resent It at the very least wed prob-
ably ask thorn to watt while we flured things out
But they don't They are pulling all of us into
closer contact with each other wiping out old
distances killing isolation and all we can do
about it is recognize the fact and adjust ourselves
ts a changed era
L
scientUic hying sa vs a reader 'Man and
woman go out to vork every day They go
50-50 on the housework all things not Joint
property are bought as before 1atArriage hence
nct more quarrels But they can quit if diseatis-
fled Tell your sensible woolen readers bow
wondeful companionate marriage is"
That sounds fine doesn't it? Theories gen-
erally do I myself am no authority upon com-
panionate marriage ati I have never tried it
However I can point out the catch in this little
scheme That part about the huoband and skife
going 50-50 with the housework If you could
make that bit work you might put it over
There have been too many plans fizzle out
that were built upon the same theory Husband
and wife buy a nice little business Everything
bet and rosy Both to do some housework both
work at office Father starts off nobly Wipes
ciishas dusts furniture straightens beds for the
first few days rktother hot-foots it to the office
and works like a Trojan But along shout the
third 'vetting comes time to cook the dinner
The Oklahoma News
A Scripps-Howard Newspaper
Carl C Magee Editor S S Wallace Jr Bus !nem Manager
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Expressions trotted In this column ere those of the
sqthor not of The News tir Brows Is one of Amer-
its a most celebrated literary men and lits writings
are submitted solely for their reader interest Many
at his beliefs however May not he In accord with
beliefs of this paper and shooid :act he ettepted as
statements of poUcy on aril Issue THE EarrOIL
A T the end of 10 clays of terrific battling with
wi the stock market I am exactly 11001 23 to
the bad t 215 ticker price) But am I down-
hearted ? Why of course I
ips- am There are no shrubs up-
on which money grows In the
I ! realm of journalism
- i However although down-
t hearted I am lesa than des-
j perate A way out is plainly
It '': - 'I h
lvoislst eal e' I
b y writing t):11taitil
epf4- g n t o book to be
Mon
rny
'?Iloy In Wall Street"
By now I've had ample ex-
perience Looking back on it
all the trick would have been
' very simple The things I
bought I should have sold and vice vetwa With-
out w1 hing to seem bitter I must say that I
think it was a shade petty for the supretne court
of the United States to withhold its railroad de-
cialon until precisely 38 minutes after I lutd
sold my 25 Mures of St Louis and San Francisco
I may sue somebody Perhaps the railroad
In the Prat place it cane as a great shock to
inn to learn that the zcpany to which I had
entruated my itulds doesn't go to San Fran-
cisco at all but winds tau soreswhere in the middle
of Texam Is that fair? It e &seat railroad can
pull a hoax like that on a naive investor I aee
no reason why I shouldn't sign this column "By
O henry and Dickens"
B' now I am even skeptical as to whether we
go into St Louis Not that this is much to
recommend a railroad It seemed to me that
I had figured out the whole problem quite care-
fully I said to myself that a passenger who gets
on it train expecting even no more than to wake
up in San FranCiiie0 is still going to be sore when
he ia aroused in the middle of the night in Texas
and told to change cars That's no way to build
up good-will
It was neWS to me that the government was
trying to recapture some of our profits ' How
was I to know that there were any profits in this
business of ehanghaling people into Texas? But
as soon as the supreme court patted the road
on the back it immediately went up 15 points
and 15 times 25 is quite a lot of money
Of course the record said "Holmes Brandeis
and Stone climes: Mg" Somebody should build
that into a poetic refrain like P P A's "Tinker
to Evers to Chance" In fact a history of the
aspirations and frustrations of liberalism in the
United States might well be entitled "Holmes
Brandeis and Stone Dissenting"
The most imaginative and Inspired concep-
tion of American law would be Included in a
history of the great dissenters By a curious
paradox all human progress Is a compilation of
"Nay" sayers
And of course if the will of Holmes Brand's
and Stone had prevailed I would not have been
in the unpleaaant position of acting as alumnus
to a stock which was on the rise
Fortunately I still retain one ace in the hole
I have a sure method of beating the stock market
but I'm not sure that it is ethical My position
as an occasional contributor to Vanity Fair gives
me an advantage which I should be slow to press
Here is the scheme: At such times va I send a
piece to Vanit: Fair which is acceplet: I ) out
into the open market and get long of Conde
Nast When they turn desch my eontribution I
go short
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I HAVE 'grave doubts t17at the daily exercise of
wrlting a column would be sufficient to in-
spirit even the most sensitive set of works And
In order to be scrupulously honest I bold my public
utility stocks at a lose rather than be tempted
to crusade against government ownership of
super power It wasn't honesty alone I thought
that they would go much lower
Steel I still hold but if the company sends
me a ton of rails tomorrow and some assorted
girders in payment for this mention I will not
receive them A columnist like Caesar's wife
should never fall for brIbili which aren't essential
Russia Goe6 Constructive
S OME day borne official of the state depart-
ment will wake up and discover a new coun-
try It 18 t country rich in natural recourses with
150000000 awakened people ready to buy of the
American manufactured surplus upon which our
prosperity so largely depends It is almost three
tiea the Ai 71 of the United States—almost large
enough to have been drwovered by some bright
young diplomat before Ma
rut a mong the many monderous gifts of
diplomats la the magic power of words to make
real things disappear and imaginary things ap-
pear Eio it happened almost 12 yesrs ago that
the state department began its incantation that
there NN as no new Russia the old Russia was atm
alive The tate department could not make
anyone with eyes believe this quantity myth—
none that is except itself
But this diplomatic malady In Washington
doesn't really matter much hallucinations can-
not atop the operations of actual forces 1101
stay the march of facts While the state de-
partment phls Sherlock liohnes with itself the
mat of tht country goes on about the daily busi-
ness without knowing much or caring an awful
lot about tl plomats' ideas
For American business men do not have to
discover Russia They made the discovery quite
a while ago And they are acting on that dis-
covery as though the tate department and its
foibles were matters of complete indifference
to them The explanation of course is that
being mere business men they have to face
facts
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPO INT
- By Mrs Walter Ferguson
OMFANIONATE marriage Is the last word in and wash dishes again and to put out the
milk bottles And what does dear papa do then?
scientific hying asys a reader 'Man and
Well he makes a tkve-dive for the evening paper
man go out to svork every clay They go and that's that
DY the end of a week or so mama la doing
half the work down town and all the work
at home Because no man will do housework
when he can sneak out of it and especially
after he has worked all day Look into any
bachelor apartment and find out how much
actual work is going on that cotil be called
domestic Practically none Girls may keep
then rooms and cook their own dinners but
few are the men who will do so
No if you are going 50-50 on down town
work you should maka enough between you to
hire somebody to keep the house Otherwise you
will strike a snag and in case you are the mama
In the scheme you will siso findyourself the
goat
F IND me a maa who will willingly go 10-90 on
housework and I'll be in favor of putting
him In a museum as a curiosity
RACY
Mo lion Not Boiled in Oil
Eqval2ty of Wealth and Power
Strewith Conp(1 to Control
Justice l'iyit8 Kentucky Boy 6
0----By M E Tracy o
71'' now looks as though reactionary senators led
J by Move Reed and company would not take
Mr ibalion apart not in secret at least
No matter bow the show intrigued them
It tuts too muelt for some Of
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- their colleagues to stbmach
"'l' it The idea of noisily de-
: flouncing "those hypocrites"
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no had given Mr Mallon
t
t n f or ma tt on as to the Len-
-'1414"rvg-41- root roll call and then mak
— ing him the goat was too
k - I raw
Thus in a roundabout
- way we come to the more
' -' ' sensible proposition of abol
' :: ithlng secret palavers over
' 1 the confirmation of residen-
o- ' Nal nominees
Alto' all It a ill wind that blow': uonody good
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WHEN it comes to money George Bernard
Irlf Shaw believes we should all be "n a level
but when it comes to politics he It ants a strong
man
"There can be no freedom without a strong
state" he says "Freedom once achieved the
people ere inclined to forget it is still necessary
for somebody to govern"
So it is and by the same token It Is equally
desirable if not necessary for those who have
the sense to use It wisely to be in possession
of more money than those who have not
rr HERE la admittedly much injustice in the
distribution of wealth but no more perhaps
than in the distribution of political power
The real danger m Mr Schwab points out
lies in the general effect of prosperity
Riches have a way of breeding their own
moral code
P OVERTY may lead to crime but it seldom
deadens conscience
Only those who have more than they know
what to do with find it easy to Justify appetites
desires and ambitions that otherwise would be
looked upon as vicious
The low criminality which comes from what
is not only lesa dangerous but leas excusable
than the subtler kind which originates in the
"Gi
Since the dawn of consciousness our worst
tyrants perverts and crooks were born with sil-
ver spoons in their mouths
A KENTUCKY judge with the kindly assistance
of a Kentucky jury has just sentenced a
6-year-old boy to the reform school for killing his'
playmate
The tragedy of such a proceeding as well
as the futility of such a punishment were vividly
Illustrated by the fact that the youngster did
not realize what was going on but played about
the courtroom as though it were a lark for his
own amusement
Putting aside the question of whether he
shot his playmate over which there Is some
doubt it seems logical to suppose he would not
have thought of doing so much less carried the
idea int'' execution unless he had been reared
in an environment where guns and death were
glorified
An inquiry concerning the home of that child
the neighborhood in which he lived and the
source of his violent attitude would seem far
more appropriate than to visit on him the ven-
geance of law which was obviously made for
older and more comprehending minds
The lady next door bas taken up politics
seriously end Intends to join one of the major
parties before the next election Bile hasn't made
up her mind about which one yet but says the
olame "pseudo-Republican" has a nice sound
Al Capone has been lodged in a common cell
In a Phliadelphia jail and Is treated Just like
the rest of the convicts He should have taken
tip some sideline in his youth such as pharmacy
The number of millionaires has grown to 40-
000 in the last 14 years Quite a few of them
are reported to have made their money outside
of the liquor busir
Postmaster General Brown is starting a big
shakeup in his department Probably he's seek-
ing men of a better stamp
Your Health
By DB MORRIS I-P4111E1N
Editor Journal Of the American aledical Asso-
ciation and of tlygela the health alagazine
INHERE are all sorts of fads and fancies for
reducing weight but there is one certain
gain in weight if the number of calories taken
Into the body balances or is less than the amount
of energy put out
There is a small number of cases of people
whose glands do not function adequately and
who teud to put on weight on small amounts
of food but even in these cases the gland treat-
ment is Important for the glandular condition
and not for the reduction of weight
Some people use up much more energy than
do others some people have low metabolic rates
and hence tend to put on fat The scientific
reduction of weight takes into account the meta-
bolic rate and governs the treatment accord-
ingly Recently physicians have been securing
weight reduction in patients by calculating the
correct diet for the ideal weight or whatever
weight Is desired and feeding the patient ac-
cordingly For instance a woman 34 years of age' 64
inches tall and married should have as an ideal
weight 60 kilograms or 125 pounds A diet Was
calculated for her so that she had a daily intake
of 681 calories which Included 60 grams of pro-
tein 45 grams carbohydrate and 29 grams of
fa t
She weighed at the beginning of treatment
17d pounds or 80 kilograms If she wished to
maintain this weight she would have to take
2400 calories a day It was est !mated therefore
that she would lobe from 12 to 14 pounds a
month on the red ai diet The diet Was main-
tained for 10 weeks during which time she lost
42 pounds
At the end of the period she began to feel
tired and exhausted The diet was increased
until she had gained four pounds and then
changed so that she would maintain this weight
The typical reduction diet such as was given
to this woman and others of similar type in
Jaded for breakfast one egg and one ounce
of bread for lunch one egg and four ounces
of assorted vegetables Including lettuce spinach
asparagus celery mushrooms tomatoes brus-
ael sprouts cauliflower radishes cabbage and
onions for dinner one cup of bouillon three
ounces of lean meat weighed after cooking and
four ounces of assorted vegetabler
Other directions Included the omission of
lard and butter in cooking the avoidance of
fried foods and the preparation of the vegetables
without milk oil or egg dressing
It it also Important to emphasize that every-
thing on the list must be eaten Such patients
also are advised to take a teaspoonful of soda
In a half glass of water twice etizh day to avoid
acidosis which may develop during reduction by
dieting
Obviously the proper handling of a patient
on a reel-aati diet Is an extremely scientific and
technical matt sr involving regular observation
and study to avoid nangerous complications
The human body is in many respecta like a
machine which demands a certain amount of
fuel for a certain amount of energy output but
It varies from the maehine in the fact that it
will use up the machine itself if the fuel is not
equivalent to the energy output
THE OKLAHOMA NEWS Photle WantorTh to 7-1151
gsroM TteNews Mail Babi-ccTi
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Old Age Pensions
Editor of The News:
As there has been some discussion
In the papers in regard to old age
pensions and as I have recently been
an inmate of the poor farm I feel
that I am qualified to know of the
conditions of which I speak
During the last summer I was af-
flicted with nervous prostration can-
cer on the hip almost total blindness
and being nearly 70 years of age hav-
ing no other method of getting relief
I voluntarily banished all self-respect
and "Went over the hills to the poor
house" In justice to the manage
ment I must say that I found the con-
ditions oetter than I had expected
The inmates when able are expected
to do the necessary work on the place
(which I approve of as it assists in
regaining lost self-respect)
Personally I served an apprentice
ship of several weeks in the dish-washing
department was advanced to the
dining room service where I remained
Iduring the rest of my time on the
farm In line with my previous oc-
cupation I tuned and repaired two
pianos and an organ and assisted with
violin and guitar with musical enter-
tainments for the benefit of the in-
mates Being an inmate myself I
could talk freely with the others on
the subject of the old age pension
plan which for obvious reasons they
would not discuss with an "outsider"
By far the majority favor the pension
plan in lieu of the poor farm
Is poverty a crime? It would seem
so as the inmates are disfranchised
(not allowed to vote) and a parole (I I
mean a permit) is required before you
are allowed to leave the grounds An
old age pension is more desired by the
inmates than txistence on the farm
(Say $20 or $30 per month) Just
enough to guard by judicious use
against extreme want and would re-
sult in cost of maintainence per in-
mate of probably 50 per cent of pres-
ent cost Best Oes the pension plan
would result in the money beteg dis-
tributed among our local tradespe:ple
instead of going directly tc Li le whole
salers to be sent out of the state as is
now being done Again the pension
plan would eliminate the opportunity
for graft
To our worthy governor the mem-
bers of the legislature and all good
people generally I would say that if
you have any bouquets to give the
aged and infirm please let them have
them now while they live and can
view their beauty and inhale the
fragrance ere they pass on to the
"area t Beyond' from whence no
traveler ever returns Remeber the
wheel of fate turned by the hand of
time may cause the rich man of to
day to be the pauper of tomorrow Of
all the nations on the globe only
civilized America China and India
have no system of old age pensions al-
though several states of our union
have individual state pensions Why
not Oklahoma?
J EUGENE DICKERNIAN
(An April 22nd '89er)
309 S Robinson St Oklahoma City
Poverty and Riches
Editor of The News:
"There must be poor people in the
world We can't all be rich" This
Is the view of a rich woman in New
York expressed with candor if not
with full knowledge If this woman
were in politics today she would be
what Is known as a standpatter or
a reactionary She takes things as
they are and calls any other condi-
tion wrong or worse
When she says "we can't all be
rich" she seems to have sensed some-
thing without knowing what that
something is She didn't know It
and probably never will but she hit
on the truth of the case when she
linked poverty and riches so closely
Without knowing why she instinc-
tivev believed that unless we have
the pool 140 poverty we cannot have
the riches and the comfort She
hit the truth squarely We may not
all like to have all the poverty so
many of the poor but when we
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1 In My Library
Ity 1311iT L MIIIIL
P ROFESSOR LEIGHTON one of
our sanest and clearest thinkers
WIMPS SS ths greatest task of civilized
humanity the application of scien-
tific metho& in the spirit of love and
the desire for a finer humanity to
the problems of disease poverty
crime and vice
lie would make this a century of
social science lust as the lOth was
the century of physical science
It is surprising as the professor re-
marks that so many understand and
use sc enti f ic methods in dealing
with physical processes and even
tvith the breeding of animals and
plants and yet take an unscientific
attitude that whatever is printed is
"so"
Few people realize the professor
contends that their beliefs in regard
to the cheracter and purposes of
other people are based on sensation-
al grossly distorted ephemeral
-news" gathered and printed solely
to make profit trmi sensation mon-
gering The scientific method—critical in-
quiry and suspense of judgment--
would go far toward promoting liner'
Lumen relations
MAKING A BREAK FOR IT
E:
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Letters Welcome'
T HE NEWS welcomes corn-
ment on current subjects
from its readers Because of
the limited space available
communications should be Urn
ited to 200 words Letters
should be written on one side
of the paper only 1h News
reserves the right to shorten
letters that exceed 200 words
Unsigned letters will not be
published
realize that to give up the poverty
the poor we must give up the riches
then we begin to see things in a
different light We can't have rich
men and women and children unless
we have a much larger number of
poverty stricken men women and
children The more poverty the
more riches They go together Here
is the greatest obstacle to changes in
our social relations It would be de-
sirable to have the world free of pov-
erty and the suffering that flows
from It but it would be a disaster
to have the world free of rich men
women and children There's the
rub If we could get rid of the poor
people and their poverty without
getting rid of the rich people and
their riches there would be eome-
thing different to work upon But
we can't For the riches of the rich
are built upon the poverty of the
poor We can't give up one without
sacrificing the other
Nothing is plainer than if all were
rich there would be no poor and If
all were poor there would be no rich
But let some advantage be introduced
Into the social machine and immed-
iately those who have the advantages
lose their poverty and those who
were poor before become poorer The
poorer the poor beceme the richer
become the rich Riches is the child
of poverty and she is a heartless and
unfeeling child She decks herself
in fine feathers and purple and fine
linen and silks and satins caresses
and fondles paddle dogs flashes her
diamonds in the faces of the victims
of her exploitation while the mother
at whose breast she fed goes hunger-
ed for a crust and a drink from the
cup of human kindness and sym-
pathy When they meet the un-
natural child turns her back upon
the mother She doesn't know her
She feels safe because she knows that
the natural love of the mother will
protect even an urr"tural unfeel-
ing and heartless child Like the
human mother the social mother
will starve herself to death that her
child have luxury
The New York woman might Just
as well have expressed herself by
saying "we can't have children sinless
we have mothers" The poor is the
mother of the rich Without the
poor and many of them there could
be no rich not even a few The
poor give up their lives that the rich
may be rich Riches are built upon
poverty There must be plenty of
the poor that the rich may be rich
Otherwise there could be no rich
Today man goes to his work with all
his thoughts talents and energy con-
centrated on one utterly debasing
object—the accumulating of money
for money's sake No matter in what
light you view such a man you can
regard him only as a hog He is deaf
to the voice crying In the wilderness
"bear ye one another 's burdens" He
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One of the beauty spots
on this famous scenic
highway 44 which paral-
le:s the north shore of
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ior for two hundred
miles to the east of
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walking on four legs Instead of two:
he is not seeking for light and guid-
ance but roots with his nose close
to the ground as is customary with
all other animals of his CIFIS8 actuated
by no worthy motive guided by no
ennobling impulse We get our ideals
by looking upward and outward We
go to our doom by looking down-
ward W O MERRITT
Sulphur Okla
reserves the right to bonen 'Then and Now'
letters that exceed 200 words Editor of The News:
Unsigned letters will not be I am looking back Into an age that
i published ! is gone Many of Its memories I still
cherish My father was a physician In
— western Illinois 40 miles from Quincy
He practiced medicine 52 years In the
realize that to give up the poverty same village He threw his saddle
the poor we must give up the riches bags across his horse the darkest night
then we begin to see things In a or the roldest day The old village
different light We can't have rich doctor is passing but the mission of
men and women and children unless love and good-will outweighed with
we have a much larger number of him the compensation he received
poverty stricken men women and Those who are still living that knew
children The more poverty the him honor and revere his memory
more riches They go together Here He lived in a simple but honest age
is the greatest obstacle to changes in when he knew his people so well 95
our social relations It would be de- per cent of them were honest he
sirable to have the world free of pov- would loan them money upon their
erty and the suffering that flows word without even a note or mort-
from It but it would be a disaster gage He lived in an age when you
to have the world free of rich men could hear the thur of a loom In the
women and children There's the house making "blue Jeans" for the
rub If we could get rid of the poor male members of th iarnily when the
people and their poverty without pumpkin was drying on the etring
getting rid of the rich people and under the ceiling when the patient ox
their riches there would be some- did the heavy plowing when the sides
thing different to work upon But of the log cabin in the woods were
t
we cant For the riches of the rich the drying house of coon and possum
skins This was not an age of ex-
are built upon the poverty of the
poor We can't give up one without pectancy beyond the daily habits and
sacrificing the other customs of a rural life They expected
Nothing Is plainer than if all were nothing more than they earned They
rich there would be no poor and If depended on the almanac for changes
all were poor there would be no rich in the weather and did not worry over
But let some adsantage be introduced impending storms Labor brought lit-
Into the social machine and immed- tie and the products of the farm were
lately those who have the advantages hardly worth Iniuling to the market
lose their poverty and those who The pastor was pious and friendly and
were poor before become poorer The molded his congregation to his will
poorer the poor beceme the richer His sermons were long and drawn out
become the rich Riches Is the child I often thought "When do we eat"
of poverty end she is a heartless and These were the good old days that
unfeeling child She clecks herself are gone Now we have learned much
in fine feathers and purple and fine that Is untrue Our life is artficial
linen and silks and satins caresses rather than humanitarian
and fondles paddle dogs flashes her We had in those days men who im-
diamonds in the faces of the victims bibed too freely but they were good
of her exploitation while the mother neighbors Uncle Jimmy was a native
at whose breast she fed goes hunger- of North Carolina He played the
ed for a crust and a drink from the fiddle He would go to a neighboring
cup of human kindness and sym- town imbibe too freely and start for
pathy When they meet the un- home He lived a mile south of the
natural child turns her back upon village and had to pass by the grave
the mother She doesn't know her yard that night on his way home He
She feels safe because she knows that fiddled as he went by to keep up his
the natural love of the mother will courage The boys of the village
protect even an urn"tural wifeel- thought they would play a prank on
log and heartless child Like the him They hollowed pumpkins and
human mother the social mother plated luminous Candles in them and
will starve herself to death that her set them on the top of the tombstones
child have luxury along the road-side Uncle Jimmy ap-
The New York woman might Just proached the graveyard and was
as well have expressed herself by I working his bow-hand vigorously
saying "we can't have children unless when he spied these weird specters
we have mothers" The poor is the The music stopped at once when lit
mother of the rich Without the beheld what he thought must have
poor and many of them there could been the giants of depari:ed ghosts
be no rich not even a few The come to haunt him on his way home
poor give up their lives that the rich As he passed a little thicket one of
may be rich Riches are built upon the boys emerged with a large
poverty There must be plenty of pumpkin and hurled It with all his
the poor that the rich may be rich force at Uncle Jimmy's head Uncle
Otherwise there could be no rich Jimmy went sprawling to the ground
Today man goes to his work with all The blow seemed to sober him up He
his thoughts talents and energy con- Jumped up wiped his mouth grabbed
centrated on one utterly debasing his fiddle and bow and took a
object—the accumulating of money straight shot for home Arriving at
for money's sake No matter in what home he fell sprawling and exhausted
light you view such a man you can On the front door step When he came
regard him only as a hog He is deaf to he related his strange experience to
to the voice crying In the wilderness his family He was broken of the
"bear ye one another' s burdens" He habit DR WILLIAM B HEAD
is deaf to all finer feelings he Is Lawton Okla
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coninent in this eel of varied
appeal ecnd port f ths United
Sttint whre 10013 ships clear
annually the threshold of tiara
tiers land in the Arrowhead country
tqake Duluth your hlitiotirter foe
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mEw YORK May 25—It has beei
ill estimated by persons eho should
know what they're talking about that
not more thsn 10 per cmt of the
population of New 'York is awar Of
take ethh ea nr place In azi nvillting :
icliel
city from month -
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overheard state- -
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could remove al- ?''i 4dA
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and unlem the fact
unless the wect - '?'
was reported in the '
newspapers only a ' J
relatively few per- de
sons would MI68 It -
And these rela-
tively few wouM illo -''
shrug their shoul-
oers and comment—"Oh the Woo14
worth building is gene this morning
Must have torn It down last week
Fast work chl"
Strangers In town notice the star4
tling changes almost inunediately
and of late months I have made It a I
practice to go about with a tourist
in order to catch up with things that
have escaped my attention
The yarn is told of the clerk who t I
went on his vacation remaining irt
Europe for several months and when
he came back couldn't find the office
building In which he worked Con-
sulting a policeman on the corner he
WWI eyed curiously for a moment
"Say Rip Van Winkle" an the
legend goes "Don't you know there's t
been a hotel and a bank there since
you last heard of It"
This however -ielongs tc the cli-
mate stories so pop:I:dr around
southern California
d
The last word in swank can be
found in a barber shop which has
opened for business on one of the 1 II
uppr floors of the new New Yore
Centri1 building
Wanac”ing in for a hair trim or a
neck shave it seems indeed a far cry
from the days when we gathered
around a copy of Police Gazette and
Puck out In Oxnard Calif In those
grand old times one could be almost d
certain of finding a couple of good
loafers from the town band or the
county baseball team Splotches of
ineradiceble tobacco juice gave color
and atmosphere to the floor decora-
tions—and women entered only when
taking their small sons out for a
haircut
But here alas on the fourth Boot'
of an office building one might vs
well be In the old Peacock Alley of
the Waldorf For there are writing
tables where one may pen a note
home while waiting for a barber to
shout "Next!" There are cozy divans
and lounges and couches The walls
are of heavy walnut and no sign of
tiling Insults the eye About the Wi IDS
are collections of rare engravings
gathered from the four corners of the
world by a collector whose hobby is
pictures dealing with the barber's art
In one corner is a museum recall-
ing to mind those far-away days when
the wandering barber was also the
Itinerant doctor Here one is led to
recall that barbers were early day sur-
geons and that barber-surgery once
fought It Out with the rising tide of
science In London—giving way at last
to two groups one of which eventu-
ally became the British Academy of
Medicine Here are the cups such as
were used for "bleeding" the kings
and the knaves alike the battles of
leeches and the Instruments of the
leth century
However—there is One redeeming
feature: No barber may engage In
conversation with a patron even 011
the eve of the world's series or a
worlds championship fighti
Iceevrizto 192Clo
Ask Ths! News
You en get an answer to any
answerable question of fart or in
formation by wrItint The Ok la!soma
News Wm-shim-ton Bureau 1312 New
ork-av 1Vashincton D C en
eleeing two-cent stamps for reply
EDITOR
Q Who la the youngest male
piaer under contract in the movles?
A Davy Lee who appeared in "The
Singing Fool" end "Sonny Boy" He
waa born Dec 29 1924
Q Who are the private secretaries
to Prftildent Hoover?
A George Akerson Lawrence
Richey and Walter Newton French
Etrother is his literary and research
assistant
Q What is the height of St Peter'S
church in Rome Italy?
A The height to the top of the
cross on the dome Ls 435 feet
Q Who is the American ambasss
dor to Peru?
A Alexander P Moore
Q What Is the oldut newspaper
In the United States?
A The Maryland Gazette pub
lished at Annapolis Md is said to ba
the oldest It was first established in
1727 but there were several suspen-
sions of publication between that
date and 1745 since which time It
ilitS been published continuously
"Wini I was a young
single girl I took Lydia E
rinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound because my mother did
and she gave it to me After
I married I took it before my
children 'were born and after-
wards and I have eight living
children I am now a grand-
mother and still tale it and
still recommend it when any
one is tired and run-down"—
Mrs Alfred Iverson Sr El
wards Nebraska
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