The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 8, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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THE SEARCHLIGHT- CUSHING, OKLA.
NOT FOOLING DAD.
The Searchlight
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HOME AGAIN.
For the first time in three
months the Editor of the Search-
light is at the desk permanently,
having been absent necessarily
of course most of the time. He
is glad to say that he hopes to be
"on the job" every week for
some time at least.
To one whose absence has been
enforced it is a pleasing sensa-
tion to He at home; but to one
whobe enforced absence has been
for a couse such as happened to
the writer, the return is doubly
pleasing. Nearly three months
of idleness has practically been
our lot and we are extremely
glad to to be able to do some
work again.
During our enforced vacation
we have witnessed both joy and
distress; the joy of those who re-
covered and were released from
the dread of losing one of the
most precious possessions
mankind; * the distress of
hopeless ones who must
through life in darkness.
The casual observer has
idea of the misery there is in the
world, and until we are brought
face to fac3 with it, can we form
any estimate of the sorrow there
is. To us the number of persons
afflicted as to the sight was a
great surprise, and only by visit-
ing the office of a noted special-
ist can we conceive of this num-
ber. From east and west, from
north and south they come daily,
some hopeful, some hopeless.
Some returned full of new vigor,
others went to their homes with
heads bent and slow step, dis-
pair writtenjrgon^heir^fea^
Stilf others went out without
hope but, reconciled to their fate,
wore even the smile of cheerful-
ness.
The writer learned several les-
sons during his stay, among them
the one that one may yet smile
under the direst calamity, An-
other was the lesson which brings
a broader and stronger sympathy
for the suffering no matter what
the cause. In the whirl of this
busy age we are apt to forget
that there is pain and misery or
our own troubles overshadow all
others. But this have I learned,
no matter how great or calami-
tous our own trouble, others
have suffered as much or more.
Home again and my pleasure
is such that I could not help thus
recording it.
The 1910 state meeting bids
fa r to be the best meeting held
for years both in numbers in at-
tendance and in spirit. The boys
down at Chandler are going to do
their best to show us a good time.
It is hoped that every lodge will
be fully represented.
How about holding an Anti
picnic in your neighborhood this
summer. It will draw the broth-
ers closer together and add to
the strength of the ties that bind
to take a day off and with our
wives and boys and girls, mingle
with those of a neighboring
lodge. Talk it up a little.
But two things seem to be of
interest to Oklahoma newspapers
just now, politics and the loca-
tion of the state capital. Of
course every citizen is more or
less interested in these two sub-
jects, or should be, and every
qualified voter should express
his choice or opinion at the elec-
tion on the 11th.
Young man, you think you
are fooling your old father every j
day don't you? You have an i
idea that you are pulling thej
wool over his eyes and making a
montcey of him every time you j
try. You appear to forget that'
the old man was young one* him-
self. He very likely told his dad
the same cock and bull story you
are now putting up io him. I
used to try the same thing on
my mother I used to smile
when i got away from the house,
thinking how easy mother was.
Let me tell you something. You
are not fooling the old man a bit.
He is onto you bigger than a
house all the time. He is the
one that does the laughing. He
simply watches you and plays
out the rope and you keep on
taking it. Any time the old
man wants to he can give the
rope a yank and you will land on
your neck in the dust. The
reason the old man doesn't pull
the rope today is because he is
having too good a time laughing
at you trying to fool him. But
wtien you get to going too strong
1 he will call you aside and give
you some good hard advice in a
; kindly way. If you take it and
do as the old man says you will
i be all right. But if you get
| smart and tell the old man you
| know more than he does, you
! will find yourself in deep water
! and unable to swim very well.
Ask your dad if this little story
isn't true and watch him laugh.
—Osborne (Ks.) Farmer.
Ex-State President James Kirk"
wood is a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress
from the first congressional dis-
trict of Oklahoma. Should he be
nominated and elected we believe
"Brother Jim" would make a
splendid representative. The
Searchlight takes no part in poli-
tics, yet surely we may wish Bro.
Kirkwood success.
When the editor has not read
his own paper for two months he
ought not to complain if his cir-
culation does not increase. While
the first part of the above is true
of us, we are glad to say that
owing to the activity of "the
boys" the circulation of the
Searchlight continues to grow.
And then it was not our fault
that we did not read the paper.
Another party whose word has
been final with us for some time
said "No."
Call of the Southwest.
Everybody's Magazine, for
Juno, devotes a special article to
the immigration movement in the
southwest, noting the drift from
the east, middle west and north
to this region, and calls attention
to the fact that in this movement
may be noted a drift from the
cities back to the land. Long urg-
ed and much discussed, this
movement has at last begun, and
the city man is going to the
cheap lands of the southwest,
where there awaits him a living
and a measure of happiness that
he would never attain iu urban
life.
"For fifty years," this writer
says, "the cities have beconed,
promised and have lied. The gilt
o' dreams has tarnished, the tap-
estry grown tawdry. And now
—the revolt." He continues:
The reaction has begun, a
mighty leaven's at work, a new
era is in the dawn, a new Amer-
ica is in the making; the tide is
on its ebb; the soil is remember-
ing its absent sons and daughters
and is lifting its voice in a prom-
ise of better things.
From cape to cape and coast to
coast the nation is restless. The
people are hungry, the millions
are poor—worn with thee strug-
gle against a lessening wage and
a rising cost of sustenance. The
second great continental emigra-
tion has begun to the open places
of the west and southwes. The
spirit of the pioneer is once more
strong. Family ties are breaking
the old trails to the west are
crowding.
But now the trail is a line of
steel, the prairie schooner a tour-
ist ear. The rigors arid the hard-
ships of *49 are buried in the past
which met and conquored them.
The new landlust exacts no toll
of hunger and thirst. Every day
the horde swells: the migration
grows mightier. Two thousand
families a week passed through
Kansas City alone last year. The
plains are peopling. From the
Kio Grande to the alkali deserts
the great field of American fic-
tion is changing into a vast field
of Bermuda, onions and corn and
cane and forage and fruit and
garden truck.
The killer has gone aud the
tiller has come. The cattle king
is retreating before the lettuce
king. The eighty-acre vegetable
patch is checkerboarding the
millien-acre range. The irriga-
tion pump sings through nights
that hitherto sobbed with the low
ing of beards. Where mesquite
and prickly pear flourished, the
plowshare is now demanding the
plows share.
From out of the east and the
middle west and the north—from
city and from atrophied farm,the
best and the sturdiest type of the
continent is coming to found the
towns and to break ground,farm-
ers and builders, dreamers and
schemers, young 'and old, clerks
and college men — bread-eaters
turned bread raisers—relinquish-
ing their sullen fight against the
odds that face bookkeeper, shop-
girl, floorwalker, and canvasser
— merchants and professional
men ready to develop with the
country .preferring a hundred per
cent opportunity in towns which
they will help 'to create, to the
meager Certainties of a met"'6,' 6J
lis.—
Your sub order's success de-
pends upon you, and you, and
you, etc., brothers. Do you at-
tend the meetings? If not, why
not?
Resulting front a stabbing af-
fray on a northbound Frisco train
Saturday afternoon, two attempts
were made to lynch William J,
Avery, a negro porter oil the
train, One of these attempts was
made at Bristow and the othei*
at Kellyville, just north of Bris-
tow. The negro was taken away
by the officers and is now at Sa-
pulpa. Avery attempted to put
Harry Early a white man of Sa-
pulpa, off the train. Early cursed
him, and when the train started,
seized the negro and pulled him
off. Avery drew a small pen-
knife and stabbed Early several
times about the stomach. The
wounded man was put back on
the train and the negro took ref-
uge in the mail car. The negro
was spirited away and taken to
Sapulpa for safe-keeping. He is
in jail there charged with assault
with intent to kill.
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Green, E. M. The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 8, 1910, newspaper, June 8, 1910; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc284988/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.