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ETRIENDSHIP Is the mar:1E4e of the emit—
Voltalre
Hoover and Lucas
THE fact that illecutive Director Lucas of the
Republican national committee stooped to
dishonorable and fecretive methcda in an effort
to defeat a senatorial candidate chosen by the
Republican primary voters of Nebraska la rela-
tively unimporiant compared with the indica-
tions that the president and the Republican
chiefs are supporting Lucas
No amount of mud thrown at Sen Nne-is by
Lucas and his associates can obscure t ie Issue
They can read Norris out of the party—pro-
vided they can get away with such usurpation
of power from the Republican!' of Nebraska All
of that is a party matter In which the general
public Is not concerned
But that la not the issue 'rho issue is the
method used by Lucite and his asaociates
Lucas was chosen by Hoover Hoover is re-
sponsible for Luca& Hoover cannot be blamed
for an error In judgment in picking Lucas He
can be and will be blamed for approvir Lucas'
conduct if he fails to condemn that conduct
and If he fella to remove Lucas from office
Two comments have cotne from the White
House since this muck was uncovered One wee
the statement that the president would take no
action The other was a statement from Chair-
man Wood of the congressional campaign com-
mittee Immediately after a conference with
Hoover that "Mr Lucas has expresmed the sen-
timent of every real Republican in the United
States7
Is It possible that the president of the United
States approves of such disreputable politics? We
find that very hard to believe
'The Wrecking Begins'
reHRISTMAS has brought to two public servants
so their reward for years of work The reward
ifs oummary dismissal
William V King chief accourtta:A for the
federal power commission and Charles A Rus-
sell its solicitor have been turned out
Monday afternoon three members of the new
federal power commission took the oath of of
Me Two hours later they met and agreed that
the8e men milet go They filed no charges
against they They made no inveetigation of
their records or the service they have performed
They gave them no hearing They gave the
other members of the commission no chanre
to protest
Tuesday morning without previous warning
King and Russell were handed letters telling
them Liey were through
Tuesday aitern000 the capital rang with in-
dignation Senators who on Saturday bad
voted to install the new commimioners in of-
fice were increouloue and angry
King has been with the government 20 years
He has been with the power commission ever
since it wu organized He IS one of the few
men In the country with the expert technical
knowledge neoeesary for performing his duties
It la King who has fought against power com-
panies reeking to pad their net investment ac-
counts with charges for 113 neckties given guests
at a party and with other items amounting tla
3311111011 of dollars which he contends should not
be charged against the public
It is Rume 11 who has carried on the legal
fight in support of King's contentions who has
vlitten briefs and argued in court tor enforce-
- r f the water power act and in defense of
the CCairrtittaltql'S jurisdiction under it Russell
WI' In the midst of a legal tight on which the
whole future of the federal water act depends
when be was dismissed He was battling for
the validity of the act against a power company
attack which If successful will reduce the power
commission to a rubber stamp and the power
act itself to a dreary joke
The three members of the federal power
commission who dismissed these men have
forfeited the right to public confidences They
arts George Otis Smith Marcel Garatted and
Claude L Draper
Courage Character
G OOD times will coMe back one of these
days
says Utilities Magnate 3amuel Instill be
cause "courage and character will make them
come"
Mr !mull got off this remark at a festival
luneheon of the Philadelphia Chamber of Com-
merce He followed it by complaining that
some Americans are "petulantly calling upon the
government for ald" and then declared that If
the government will only let things alone every-
thing will come out very nicely and all of this
courage and character will bear their proper
fruit
There is no denying surely that courage is
an essential quality these days This is especial-
ly true In the case of the man who hasn't had
a job since last January and whc doesn't know
when he Is going to get another And if such
a roan has a good character the butcher and
the grocer are more likely to trust hitt for his
food supplies while he Is out of work: inileed
if his character is something superlative even
hia banker might accommodate him with a
small loan
However this particular recipe leaves one
with a somewhat unsatisfied feeling Courage
and character are very fine attributes but isn't
It essential that our business and Industrial com-
munit7 clisplay also a third attribute—brains?
The most dismaying thing about the present
situation when you stop to think about It is
its disquieting hint that American business
eimply plundered into the depresaion without
foreseeing it and that it has not now the faint-
eat iclea how It Is going to get out or how It Is
olng to stay out once It does ret out
Up until the very moment that the stock
market broke in 1929 the more vocal members
of the cotnmercial class were assuring us that
prosperity would last forever Ain( a we had en-
tered a new era For six months after the crash
they were trying to tell us that the trouble was
only a temporary recession and not a week
passed without some seer spying the beginning
of an up-trend Now with bard times in full
blast the franker business leaders are admitting
that they don't know just what the trouble Is
or how soon it will be over
!Pr EsntIernan torgefa that t wt great
A deal easler to support a wife and family 40
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ONLAIIOMA CITY DECEMBER 25 1930
Tracy
Short Hours More Jobs
Claim Overproduction
Discuss Necessities
Needs of Civilization
-- By 31 E Tracy
IvORE jobs through a shortened working day
ITI higher prices through the arbitrary curtail-
men of farm crops better business through the
exclusion of foreign goods and so on ad In-
finiturn No matter how good each proposition may
look by itself the scheme as a whole Is all wet
While it Is true that modern industry has
led to overproduction In certain lines and that
mechanical power has involved the decrease If
not the extinction of certain trades It is not
true that people have been provided with the
comforts and conveniences of civilized life even
In the so called civilivted countries
lourthermore civilization was not attained by
building barricades or quitting in the middle of
the afternoon nor can It be preserved that way
0 0
Published sty days
a week by Oklertoma
News Cumpany tit is-
home City entRied
as see9nd-eless
undtt sot of
NAOMI) than half of humanity Mill lacks a
Ppeak!ng acquaintance with what we regard
as ordinary neceshitiesi Neither is that ball con-
fined to the swarming plains of Asia or the
Jungle depths of Africa as eome seem to think
There are Mt MOM right here In America
living without bathtubs or screened windows
not to mention electric lights hardwood floors
and washing machin-o
The fact that we are driving four times as
many autos as all the rest of the world put to-
gether or that we have twice as many tele-
phones does not mean that we have done such
a complete job
If every able-bodied adult in this country
were to work eight hours a day every day in
the yeilr for the next 10 years we could still
find something to do
Knowledge increases consumption as well as
production and of the two consumption is the
more Important
It is not what some of us raise or make that
counts but the way many of us can use It
What western civilization needs eepecially
In America is lem of the ostrich and more of
the missionary epirit
No nation can grow by walling itself in lying
down on the Job and living off its own shelf
Succem means responsibility as well as priq-
lege No matter bow well off they may be those
who quit are lost
The problem Is zot to curtail production ex-
cept in spots but to promote consumption par
ticularly among people who hre not caught
up with the procession
We could do a lot In that direction if we had
the will
VOI hear people talk a greet deal about the
wonderful market China will one day fus
nigh for our machinery and implements or
Africa and South America
But what are we doing to help the good work
along?
Are we tackling the proposition the way we
tackle that of a new townsite or a suburban de-
velopment? We are not We are sitting down and wait-
ing for them to get set an whining because it
takm so long
If there is a revolution we can generally find
ways to loan the new government some cash to
pay off its soldiers provided we think it is going
to last more than a week
How much have we ver loaned for real
honeet-to-God improvements for better roads
reclamation projects and such other enterprises
as are necessary for the development of natural
resources?
P EOPLE can't drive autos without roads:
neither can they market their goods at a
profit
If the United States wants to see more bus
nem In the world the United States must take
hold and help to create It
That la one responsibility that goes with the
possession m! one-third of the gold in exiatence
with baing the wtrld'a outstanding leader
e'mmerce finance and manufacturing
Be of Good Cheer
T HOSE who can be happy only when living
with a false sense of security and perfection
won't have a good Christmas But others can
be happy with such blessings as are given with-
out believing that al ni right with the world
It is true that there is unemployment and
suffering this winter And it is true that only
the selfish can be completely content while
others are in want But there are compensa-
tions even in suffering
Perhapa out of the national need is coming a
new sense of responsibility shared by us all If
that is true the suffering will be relieved and
will be prevented next time
Certainly philanthropy this year has been on
a larger scale than ever before And it means
inore because most persons have had lem to
share with others
Certainly there Is more determination 11 ow
than ever before to break the vicious cycle of
depression following prosperity More federal of-
fic:als and employera have recognized the basic
right of every man to a steady and decent job
and the responsibility of Industry and the na-
tion so to adjust the economic system to main-
tain that permanent employment upon which
the national prosperity depends
Internationally alsc the world la more aware
of the dangers threatening peace Those dan-
gers are not new The fact they are seen now
should be the occasion of hope and not of
despair For only thus can the nations through
cooperation prepare for lasting peace
The christmas Ideal of a perfect peace on
itrtn and good will among men is a long goal
It cannot be gained in one generation But if
we move in our halting way toward that ideal
kingdom upon the earth we can rejoice in
humility and happiness
will that poem of Rudyard Kipling satirizing
his country be criticized for its re-verse English?
A Woman's 'Viewpoint
By Mrs Walter Ferguson
AHUSBAND with 46 years of marital exper- years ago than It Is now Mil
'env writes: a much simpler business and
-If I were a girl and a 1111171 asked rcie to be outside the kitchen
his wife the first thing I would want to know
One alto
would be If he could give me a home and pro-
suspects that he
vide for me and a family of children" with the times Good men al
After the passing of almost at a century to provide homes and food f
of marriage this etatement may sound like good dren as they ever were W
sense to the man who makes it Dut would it anxious to have homes and
not ring a bit false In the ears c1 young peorle the economic structure is ‘a
In love? I think so it ail couples now waited to
It seems to me to put women upon rather possesmd financial security
a low spiritual plane—as if all we ever thought many more miserable people at
about In marriage v a soft snap and a5 it we bre now
could not love a man who did not save an ads You recall the story of the i
gotta bank account commanded the waves not to
I am sine the husband did Dot actually lust about LS much luck as till
mean to imply such a thing But doubtless who Insists that we must g
when his wife married birn 45 years ago she tions as they were 40 years agc
tcok Just as many chances as a woman always go back agalu For better fc
Crois
years ago titan It Is now Maftng a living was
a much simpler business &Le n) woman worked
outside the kitchen
One euspecta also that he has not kept up
with the times Good men art just aa anxious
to provide homes and food fir wife and chll-
dren as they ever were W omen are just as
anxious to have homes and food provided But
the economic structure ts vastly differegt and
it ail couples now waited to marry until tby
possesmd financial security kitere would be
many more miserable people about us than there
nre now
You recall the story of the medieval king who
commanded the waves not to advance Ile had
just about IIJ much luck a St the person nowadays
who Insists that we must go back to condi-
tions as they lare 40 years ago We cannot ever
go hack again For better for worse we must
go forward To make the necessary adjustments
thtt will bring about the happiness of the great-
est number of people is our job in Wit test
order of existence
Science
Einstein and Planck Be-
gan Modern Order
Prussian Academy
Honors Founder of
Quantum Theory
-B Dad Dietz
merippl-ifoward Science Editor
D Ft 011 MAX PLANCK according to
the news from Germany has been
appointed chancelltr of the Prussian
Order for Merit of Science and Art
He succeeds the late Prof Adolf Von
Ilernack
It would be a difficult thing to say
which of the great names of today
will survive the passing of another
century But It t3eems safe to say that
as lam as boo:Ls are written upon
the subject of science the name of
Planck will endure
The spotlight of public notice
iseems as erratie as lightning No one
knows where it will strike next
The whole world apeaks of Eins
BtPin Perhaps few laymen have heard
of Planck Yet an understanding of
the modern scientific view of the
nature and structure tr the nelverae
sequin a knowledge of the theories
of Planck m well as those of Ein-
stein Einstein gave the world the theory
of relativity
Planck gave It the quantum
theory
The two theories are Interlocked In
many ways and the layman who may
not have heard of the quantum
theory may console himself—If it be
any coneolation—that the quantum
theory Ls almost as difficult to un-
dtratand as le the theory of relativity
S TRANGE as it may seem the quan-
turn theory In many waye is more
revolutionary than the Einstein
theory
Planck originated the quantum
theory In 1900 He was then pro-
lesior of theoretical physics at the
University of Berlin Many other ex-
perimentalists and theorists have
dealt with the quantum theory since
In fact so rapid has the prtagret-s
been that physicists now speak of
the "new quantum theory"
The basis of Planck's theory was
that energy can not be gained or lost
In a steady stream but only in email
amounts or driblets These have been
named quanta and hence Ma theory
Is known as the quantum theory
A conesquence of the quantum
theory was to dimplam the view that
and other forms of radiation
coMslated of waves with the !dee that
they consisted of little bullets of
energy or quanta "Displace" how-
ever is too drastic a word For while
the quantum theory explains many
things which the old a'ave theory did
not explain there are many phe-
nomena which can be explained sat-
isfactorily only on the basis of the
wave theory
One scientific wit has said that the
physicists use the wave theory on
Monday Wednesday and Friday and
the quantum theory on Tuesday
Thursday and Saturday
Pr IIE new quantum theory has
brought with It a new theory of
atomic structure This Is known as
the Schroedinger atom It is based
on the mathematical theories known
as Schroedinger wave mechanics
It Is interesting to note that Ein-
stein in addition to developing his
own theory of relativity did much to
point out the linnortance end de-
velop the implications of the quan-
tum theory He made the bold sug-
gestion in 1905 that It was necessary
to deicard the wave theory of light for
the quantum theory and this led to
the formation of the Bohr theory Of
the atom
Extensions of the Bohr theory of
the atom were made by Sothmerfeld
end others by applying considerations
of the Einstein theory to It
The new quantum theory of Schroe-
einger De Broglie Heisenberg and
others represents an application of
tne EinsttiAt theory to the quantum
theory
The rcr will not be surprised to
hear that this has resulted In a rather
amazing state of affairs in which sci-
entists are almost as confused as are
laymen Suffice it to say that the
puzrle as to whether light consteted
of waves or 'particles has now been
extended to the atoms themselves
Evidence has been brought forward
to show that atom and electrons at
times behave as waves
As Langmuir said some time ago a
helium atom may now be regarded as
a nucleus and two electrons in three
dimensional space or as a wave in aix
dimensional space
Ask The News
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Allocable question of tact or Informa-
tion by writing The Oklahoma Ness
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EDITOR
Q What provision Wall made re-
garding the Saar Basin in the Treaty
of Versailles?
A According to article 45 of the
treaty France obtained from Ger-
many as a compensation for the de-
struction of the coal mhtes In the
north of France the eXCIUMV8 rights
of exploitation of the coal mines situ-
ated in the Saar Basin The area of
this diatrict is about 751 square miles
and the population 657870 For 15
years from the date of the treaty the
Saar Basin was to be governed by a
COIlltrith81011 of five choeen by the
League of Nations At the end of the
15 years the population will decide
by plebescite one of three alternatives
viz the maintenance of the rule set
up in the titaty union with France
or union with Germany
Q T American and English law
is a person accused of a crime pre-
sumed to be guilty until proven In-
nocent? A In American and English juris-
prudence persons accused of crime are
presumed to be Innocent until proven
guilty The presumption of In-
nocence abides throughout the trial
and in a capital case guilt must be
established beyond a reasonable
doubt In the old English law the
accused was presumed to be guilty
until proven innocent
—
Q Bow did the expression "to
double cross" originate?
A Double crom Is a British ex
pression first meant one who had
agreed to lose (in a race) and then
did his best to win In the Amer-
lean interpretation of the phrase It
means to betray—for instance to take
money from two opposing factions
arid betray both The expression
seems to have been used first In
the "Referee" a British sporting Jour-
nal In 1887 New York boss testify-
ing in the early 80's said that when
a constituent asked a favor he made
a record of the name and fact and
If he intended to grant the petition
he marked a cross in front of the
name Sometimes he said he changed
his mind and then marked another
cross before the name Be used the
expre!-ston T crossed or double crossed
Jones"
Q Where Ls the largest railroad
station?
A The Union Station at Cleve-
land is considered the lartest It
txtts completed in June 1930 The
passenger terminal electrification and
approach lines oczt $88000000 The
ri400(1 station at telpsic Germany
la considered tha largest In Europe
The Chicago Union Station the sec-
ond largest railroad station in the
world u-as completed and opened May
15 in& This passenger terminal
cost 173000000
THE OKLAHOMA NEWS
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Phone Wrniteds to 7-1551
Fro' The
Urges Bond Issue
Editor of Tilt News:
Make America safe for industry
Why not have our government issue
a series of "home improvement" or
"Industrial bonds" as was done In
the Liberty Bond Imue and put them
on the market for sale to the general
public The money laiaed in this
manner would provide a turd auf-
ficient to provide a means for the
individual home owner to rehuild ami
Improve their homes throughout the
land Have the issue run over a
period of years The details for mak-
ing this fund available could be
worked out so ea to insure the re-
payment of money borrowed from
this fund monthly semi-annually or
annually
To the casual observer it is ap-
parent that a large number of our
homes need to be rebuilt repaired
or changed so as to add comfort
beauty and home attract We have reached the period In
which homes should be built of brick
stone or cement Wooden structures
ahould be improved by brick veneer-
ing Home8 thus built would reduce
the expense of upkeep save fuel send
provide comfort to our families and
stimulate the spirit of home sweet
home
In our present industrial crisis we
hear and read about over-production
fewer markets appeals to employers
industrial and government agencies to
rut niah relief and as yet no program
has been evolved to relieve the eon
nomic Ills Why not create a home
market in the United States that will
bring prosperity to each community?
In thits land of progress enlightening
the World let us demonstrate to the
world that no task is too large to
be solved by a Christian and liberty
loving people
If one per cent of the population of
Oklahoma would purchase MOO
worth ot these home Improvement
bonds It would mean a sum of $20-'
000000 to be put into industrial de
velopment which would build per
manent and safe prosperity aim re
store confidence in our American In
atitutiaa t of government
Threaaae the tongue of the Corn
munist agitator who is preying on
the minds of the less Informed cit
izenship of our land thus trying to
foster a change in government foreign
to our own cherished form of emoc
racy
note much in your paper in re-
gard to public problems and r am
writing this for your consideration
JAMES BRUCE
31 3 E Fourth-et Oklahoma City
Evolution
Editor of The News:
Mr Cope says he wishes evolution
In the schools but not the Bible when
the Bible Is the text book of evolu-
tion Gen 1: "In the beginning
God created the heaven and the
earth and there was darkness upon
the face of the earth and God said
'let there be light' and there was
light" And this lieht started the
wheel of evolution Before there was
no evolution Everything was dead
There was no expansion and no con-
traction But when the heat of ths'i
sun warmed up the earth and God
said let the earth bring forth grass
the herb 5clding seed and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his ktiid
whose seed is In itself upon the earth
and was so
Evolution is there We could not
live without evolution but it cannot
take the place of God for it is work
of Ills own hands and the creature
cannot raise above its creator Luther
said "das wort sie solicit lassen
stalm" and that is true But one
church put more strem On part of the
Bible and some other church on some
other part The devil is driving them
asum'air like the 'a olf a bunch of
sheep but Christ said "if a house is
divided against Itself it cannot
stand" And jPSIIS aaid In St John
10:16: "And other sheep I have
which are not of this fold them also
must bring and they shall hear my
m
I MEW YORK Dec 25--Tin Pan Alley--or rather
1 i I what's left of it--once More is witnessing a corn-
plet s topsy-turvy In public tastes
I Not that the alley where songs come from Isn't used
1 to thia sort of thing Having lived through movie
Itheme songs It considers Itself capable of enduring
almost anything
But the current appetitea have turned so complete-
ly "hill billy" and in direction of mournful ballade
that some consideration has to be taken of this change
3f tastm
Such titles as "Don't Send My Boy to Jail" are all
the vogue And the themes also run to such waltzish
refrains as may be found In "Somewhere in Old Wpm
mg" And if that Isla right out of the old barocr
shop quartet vintage please introduce me to one that
Is And there's one about "Moonlight on the Colorado'
There& one about Montssn too And the radio pro-
grama fairly groan with numbers that have sitzht
association with the vo-de-o-do era
TaillATrVErR may be behind this eudden reversion
VT to the ballad school of song song pubW‘hern nave
1 long been aware that the be3t aellers in sheet music
always were of the sentimental waltz variety Some-
thing of a record has beer held for years by "Beautiful
Ohio" which so I have been told is the biggest seller to
date
Amusingly enough its authorernp wee credited to
a young worn n who never existed It was written by
a man who having a Cie-manic name was a bit ner-
vous about this at the time of the war and changed
it for writing purpose
News Mail Ba
Letters Welcome
rr HE NEWS welcomes corn-
ment on current subjects
from its readers Because of
the limited space available
communications should be lim-
ited to 200 words Lntters
should ti written on one side
of the paper only The News
reserves the right to shorten
letters that exceed 200 wards
Unsigned letters will not be
published
voice and there shall be one fold and
one shepherd"
And time Is or band now Those
signs are fulfilled almost daily and
the churches are trying to unite but
cannot agree They must tirst be
prairie& The commercialism must
be driven out like Christ drove It out
of the temple at Jerusalem and then
we must come back to one church
for Jesus said in Matthew 12:25:
"When kingdom or a house Is divided
against itself it shall not stand"
Matthew 24:34: "Verily r say unto
you this generation shall not pass
until all these thins be fulfilled
heaven and earth shall pass away
but my words shall not pass away"
So let us stick to our Bible for evo-
lution Is only a machine made by the
hand of God for our benefit So let
us try to get In harmony and practice
more the brotherly love
J H NISSEN
1320 Linwood-av Oklahoma City
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The Bond Issue
Editor of The News:
The battle over the bond issue has
been fought and the bonds defeated
because they stretched their imagi-
nation too far Had they only kept
within the bounds of reason and de-
manded a 62000000-bond issue to
finish the most needed prnjects they
would have won out Regardless of
that Oklahoma City ha3 outgrown
Its swaddling clothes and does mt
need any more bond issues for public
improvements With a taxable valu-
ation of over 8150000000 it can build
anything it needs without any bond
issue whatsoever
Why not establish a five-year im-
provement budget including the
most needed projects costing about
62500000 and vote an improvement
tax of 3 mills annually for five years
which vvrAtitil bring about 82500000
In five years time and would take
care of the cost of building same
without 1 cent of Interest cost to the
taxpayers of Oki Ahoma City Of
course it would be a somewhat slower
method of building than a bond issue
but much safer end It would not
mortgage cur future generation
The bond issue has seen Its day sn
far as Oklahoma 'City is conrerned
If our oil field turns out anything
worth while the mancy deritTd can
be ussd to accPicrate future improve-
ments needed such as park turchase
and improvements of the fairgrounds
etc Don't let's get scared The Lord
Is still taking care of us the sun still
shines and the drouth has been
broken
No small credit for the victory is
due to Mr Carl t Magee for his un-
selfish support of the anti-bond issue
and we owe hint a vote of thanks
A BURRY
607 W Fifth-st Oklelsoma City
'Use Common Sense'
Editor of The News:
This is a reply to a letter published
In your paper from Mr W W Ma-
leney of Britton Okla under date of
Dec 18 criticizing editors for accept-
ing ads from firms who advertise for
"salesmen" and "salesladies"
I acvertise for salespeople all the
time and have them deposit e350 for
$14 worth of goods at retail price and
wish to state that if I didn't adver-
tise for salespeople I would not get
very many I have :epr:crt:'tives
NEW YORK
By Gilbert Swan
ma:zing from $10 to 435 a day when
they work
There are a great many people to-
day who are making a good income
from answering want ads in the news-
papers and the nmspapers re do-
ing a great service for the unem-
ployed when they rim these classified
ad& When an editor of any newspaper
refuses to run want ads then his
newspaper will certainly decline in
circulation and it should As for
"lake advertisements" people should
use common sense In deciding which
to accept
ant writing this in defense of my
own firm and thousands of others
who are) constantly advertising for
"ssleFpeople" and showing people how
tc make more money I ant running
an an in The News today and ex-
pect to put on several representatives
L C CLARTr
118 Harrison-av Oklahoma City
Traffic Accidents
Editor of The News:
Not wishing to dictate in any
manner to your paper but offering
a suggestion let us say that we ivoulti
be pleased to see an ariicle in your
paper reviewing the automobile acci-
dents that have happened in Okla-
homa City during the past year
We wish this article could give
some detailed information Would
like to know how many children were
hurt how many people of sound
health and of middle age and how
many people old or infirm Would
like to know In how many cases there i
seemed to be a violation of law on
the part of the triver and what re-'
sults if any were obtained in the
prosecution of the driver WJuld like
to know how many of the: e deaths
were bread winners
We think these statistics bringing
back at the New Year's time to the
people of Oklahtima City the tel:Tale
lesa of life which was hal during tne '
last year cannot fall to have -omt
effect both on drivers and pedestrians
-rid the police force through tie com-
1g year Ilespectfully
W E STONER
The Future
Editor of The News:
We are in what might be called a
very complicated world It seems too
complicated for the layman and all
of involved In 'this intricate mess
Every day we see more instances of
organized groups in the business
werld and in all our civil life Is this
really the form this world should
take or is It a balloon tliat will burst
wnen the Mat persca sticks a pin
in it?
Most of our complication is based
on trying to provide for the future
years Trying to see what is going
to lappen to us in years to come—
and basing our solution on A hat has
gone before This hari almost proved
inielf wrong this year because this
has been the eye-opener year and Las
not altogether fellowed precedent
At least two things are caused by
this anticiption of the future fear
of it and worry over it About all
one gets in return for his painstaking
regard of the distant future are gray
harm and no enjoyment out of life
There is too much emphasis put upon
that word foresight The wiiy some
people talk would lead you to be-
lieve that unless you could necurately
tell what was going to happen one
year from now you would have little
chance of 5IICS3 in any 'undertaking
Why WaSte a perfec:ly god brain
thinking how to be on easy strect in
10 years when you cant even handle
trivial matters in everyday life?
Twenty-four hours Is all the future
any of us need to consider Just stop
and think of the red tape that woulo
be eliminated if we lived on that
plan and how much happier we wouid
all be This world is too complicated
and tile minds running it go through
too many curves getting to the con-
AUSiOnf Things are so cluttered up
that Vie human mind wora be able
to trIlL1t stnight in a few years We
need less organization
JUSsTN STUALT
17 W 18th Oklahoma City
A ND there's many a tale to be heard about how sue-
cessful songs come to be written
Take Freddie Coots—or leave Mtn! Coots has had
12 hits In a row which Is quite a record And these
include such favorites as ''I Still Get a Thrill" and
Not so many months ago this young man ala won-
dering both how and why He was out of a Job and
his wife didnt Feem able to get a musical connection
either They were rspidly getting on their uppers
hoping for something to turn up soon
"Weil" he commented on a day when things looked
pretty black "Anyway honey we still have got that
precious little thing they call love"
"Wait a minute—that sounds like a good title"
This so I am told is how "That Precious Little
Thing Celled Love" happened to be written And it
was the beginning of Coo:s's rise to his present peak
a
T HE most successful ef all the current writers is the
team of De Syiva Henderson and Brown who have
been responsible for two highly sticceuful bound pie-
ture efforts They nuw own their own buildhg on
Broadway and have a fortune rated around a million
It the "trick" song that put them into the
limelight—titles like 'Never Swat a Fly" and "You're
the Cream in My Coffee"
Such numbers click because of their particularly
catch-phrase nature for most of which "Buddy" Brown
I believe has been blamed They have a ow on
Broadway and another crming up these keep the
trio busy ruining between Broadway and Hollywood-
bit d
It Seems to Me
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EIOTest!ODS sliced in tntit COPIDID are those or the
af:Iur Got of rhe News Mr brouh is one of Amer-
los mo-t celebtited literal's men and his wntings
are e'lernitted soles for their reader 'rawest man
ot his behers however they not be In accord wail
beie: of il:s rsier and should not he ar'renied ts
slatemeiits of polies OD SDP Win TH3 EDrOft
I T Is easy to overestimate the effect of the de
cielon by Judge Clark of New Jersey Th
point on whieh he delared the 18th amend-
ment i2 -1:8 is technical To a lay mind it Ls
hard to understand just
- as what Issue is involv'd upon
411 'i-i which the supreme court
' has not passed already
I 1 l'a all probability the
drys are correct In maintain
' 4 2' trig that the New Jersey in
471 '4: terpretation will be set
! aside Any other tetion
41e) 4 j would make the high court
' 4 seem more than a little
-:& 4-4 - foolish Year after year Ito
10lie'' tle tias proceeded to twist and
1 Ifeaez 114lir ' tear established rights In a
e —ip - series of opinions designed
y
x- iiA t to build up Volateadista
't - ' Not even the supreme coMt
has seemed a a Ise or a gallant body In the face
of rohltntion preFsurk
And kith few exceptions the court is not
composed of men a ho are mentally flexible
That is the reason by they were made lustim
I T is obvious to every observer that not et— the
holee the :enate and the chief executive rep
resent the present will of the people in regal(' to
prohibition
It will take al least another two years to
square legislative and executive thought IA 1 t 11
popular opinion All of which means that lu-
dicial relief can hardly be gained for another
half century The upreme court has always
Isrlged nt least that far behind each liberal
movemezt
And vet even if nothing tangible comes of
It this ea a famous victory Th4e an lie
longer be any 41'-itibt of the turning of the tide
If only the incubus could be dropped in some
Such quick and eimple manner I think we might
see all Impromptu national celebration second
only to the first Armistice Day in fervor and
good spirit
WOULDN'T it be a great and a fine thing to
open the doors of prisons and liberate the
men and women the girls and boys who ate
suffering under the savage penaltics astaned by
grim judges backed by tyrannical statute? la
I act the invalid ting of the 18th emandment
might be the first step In the creation of a net'
spirit Of itliowshIp It is upon prohibition that
I he whole structure of suspicion hate and whole-
sile graft has been reared
It may be as many say that prmiperity would
immediately be accelerated I hese no doubt
that certain industries would spurt Just think
of the rush orders vhich would core to every
locksmith to rip off padlocks and alto the cum
bersome protective devices which clutter up the
docrs where one knocks tintitte and says "Oh
you know me"
Ships wl11 golden fretaht would race for our
ports ILetOSS the broad Atlantic The Map:
might well greet at the city hall the captain of
the first crift to enter New York harbor pub1ich1
bearik the first real cIcampagne lu many years
But I could not be there You would find
me at the pier ga7ing into the mist and vatting
tor the beer boats
A tearchillft In Times Square Eweeping front
east to west could indicate to the anxious
populace that Culmbagner had beaten bout
Atunehener end Pilsener in the race to the city
where the siege was lifted
A ND out in 1111vukce the hum of human life
would be heard again in haunted breweries
and mo:bc thq could even find some of the II"
big vi hite horses to stamp proudly down the de-
serted streets once again bearing behind them
barrelled treasures of amber
Nor r mild I spend my entire day upon the
piers reserved for North German Lloyd liners I
would have at least an academic interest in tbe
state of transportation existing betrecn this
land and Scotland
And natoially there would he a parade Al
strwh would 1e seicrANI by auilamation as first
marshal Clarence Iniz Wtlson WOUld walk be-
hind his chariot in chains
Besides the venicle of Al I should like to see
Henry L Mmehen riding astride a coal black
charger and blowing hisses as well as loam to
the cheering multitude Anci Emnewhere near -
the head ot thP procession a place roust be re-
served for LaGuardia bearing upon his back
a gat k1u coritaining honest Chianti
0
A ND shoulder to rMulder wIth him marches
tiL Ritchie a delegate from the great free tate
of Maryland These posts vf honer would be
dangeraus as ‘vell as tiorions for frOal the win-
dowii of Iitb (7ff-ice buildings the liberated rerhi
would throw not toher tape but hip narks now
renciered quite unnecesary
The banos blorIng forth "Brown October
Ale" -Drnk to Me Only With Thine Eyes" and
"Under the Anheufier Busch" Clare nco Darrow
will come On from Chicago to join the celebra
lion at our chief' seTort In fact I wouidn't
sopraa-d to 11-4 him cancelling a debate on
"L ‘Vorth Living?" in older to make it
Bele and there in a side street one miebt
ccrne upon a sucl and mournful face and neve'
know whether this ens? whose occupation V-
gone happened to be a dry rnooper or a hoe"
legger
Your Health
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IllilitorIeurnal of the American eledleal eosoile-
Him and et the Health elaelzine
A NIONG he t meet Irritating of the eubetawee
wiliih effect the skin is water This dee
not mean that one should at once diecontiliee
1)1111e-et or 1 fhttg the fere end the hende
It IS reeeentzed that distilled viler Is ellehii
acid In reaction and that ordinary tap weter
tieuell sheeny elkaline If water centains
little salt material lu olution It deprives tee
cells of their eelts: if it conteins 00 nitieh sec
metered it is irrieiting and leads to collectlei
of fluid the cells Hard waters are oblectee
able to the for such rcesons
eltrozig neid substances burn the skin Meer'
as weak acid eubstences have an astringent f
INI Burns by acids Occur constantly emeee
people vtio work witi them such as plumbeie
and workers In galvanizing and tin plate fee-
tones Nitric neld Is much used in the maiel-
facture of explosives The moet widely used
acid in industry Is sulphuric acid which le
handled by brass and Iron workers and by peorli
who work With copper Or bronze
Strong alkeline substances such as soda heel
lye also corrode the bkij ancf whenever suele
alkaline substances get on the skin a NA eatr
acid should be put on the skin inunmediateli
to stop the effect People working with pate cleaners frequently suffer with irritations called
alkali Itch Workers with soap and grease wi
lime and with water-glass not Infrequently hitee
irritations of the ekin etre to the effects of al
kallne substances
It is generally recognized that surgeons and
nurses working with strong antiseptics contair-
lg mercury and fermaldehycle have severe irr-
tations and ereptions of the skin Iadeed ti
Meet anysebstance containing mercury will I -
Mate the skin if the seen Ls feeqUently expeer"l
to It
Thus trenntacturers of thermometers dental
techniciana who work with amalgam electrical
workers and those who eolder dry batteries no
infrequently consult the specialist in eleirt dl-
seeees becaese of irritation ti of the skin produced
by contact with mercury
One of the Most serious eubstances met with
In Induetry is phoephorus Metches used to t'
manufactured with a considerable amount of
phosphorui and because of irritations and de '
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