Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 180, Ed. 1 Monday, March 13, 1922 Page: 4 of 4
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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
Features
OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every day eiccpt Sunday by The Oklahoma Leader Co.
Oscar Ameringer
Dan Hogan
John Ha gel
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Business Manager
SUBSCRIPTION KATES
By Mall:
One Tear
81x Months
Three Montba
17 West Third Street, Oklahoma City, Okla.
P. O. Box 777. Telephone Maple 7600
Entered an second class mall matter June 1, 1918. at the Postofflce
t* Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3. 187r .
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"ROB TILL IT HURTS'
"The actuating motive"—of the Harding administration
—1"seems to be the hope that if you let a thing drift long
enough there will be some kind of a divine dispensation to
get you out of your hole or to point the way out."
So says The Nation. It js an accurate estimate of the
administration so far as the things it does not want to do
are concerned.
It is swift enough with the things it does'want to do.
It wanted to shut out most of the would-be immigrants
—and it did it quickly.
It wanted to reduce the income taxes of the rich—and
that did not take long.
It wanted to patch up a truce to reduce the cost of arma-
ment and to make international competition for trade appar-
ently a bit safer—and it did so.
It want* a ship subsidy—and its spokesman hops to the
front with a message recommending such a subsidy.
But as for the things it does not want to do, there just
seems to be no way in which they can be accomplished—and
it adopts the drifting, fiddling, dawdling method.
It could give every unemployed man and woman a job
—but it doesn't want to. Therefore, it called an unemploy-
ment conference to fuss with the question, with no intention
of actually trying to solve it.
It could tax the profiteers and pay the soldiers a bonus
—but it does not want to. It fiddles with the project month
after month—and it is three years and four months since
the war closed. Apparently it is waiting for the boys to die,
so they won't need any bonus—or for them to become so weary
with waiting that they will he willing to take certificates on
which the bankers can make a big haul.
It could stabilize prices for the farmers and drag them
out of the slough of despond—but it doesn't want to. It called
a conference of alleged farmers — most ot whom wouldn t
know a double-tree from a corn-sheller—and, with its cus-
tomary deftness, did next to nothing.
During the war, the wealthy profiteers arranged for the
common people the slogan, "Give till it hurts. But they
reserved for themselves the private slogan, "Rob till it hurts."
ORGANIZERS WHO DON'T
A communication to the header calls attention to the fact
that there are several mining towns in Oklahoma where or-
ganizers are needed, and if there ever was a time when organ-
ization work should be done it is now. A sweeping wage re-
duction is being demanded by the operators and unless the
organization presents a united front they will have every-
thing their own way. These camps ought to be organized
and can be organized and would be organized if the United
Mine Workers had a bunch of organizers worthy of the name.
The trouble is and has been for some time that the posi-
tion of National Organizer is a sinecure, a soft snap, a fat
reward which the national machine hands out to tis faithful
defenders and internal political fence builders. Here is a
case in point.
On last Thursday Bill McLachlan, repudiated by the vote
of the rank and file of the district, and Rube Fern, discredited
and repudiated by the miners where he lives, were "organiz-
ing" in Oklahoma City. They came here, at the expense of the
rank and file, to represent, not the rank and file which pays
them, but John L. Lewis, discredited and repudiated interna-
tional president. They arc paying Lewis and Wilkinson for
the soft jobs they hold, the number of which increase in exact
proportion to the number of disorganized mining camps.
HERE GOES NOTHING
They say the chances of passing the bonus have improved
since it is proposed to eliminate the cash payments and sub-
stitute long time certificates on which the boys might possibly
be able to borrow a little money by paying a high rate of
interest and tying their souls to the banjes.
How perfectly lovelv!
Now if they will only eliminate the certificates, too—
and prepare a bill in which the boys will be given a rising
vote of thanks for having risked their lives to stuff the pockets
of the profiteers and make the world safe for big grafters—
it ought to go through with a wild and enthusiastic whoop.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
A (iOLl) BRICK BONUS
ARE WE SO SOON FORGOTTEN?
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I)ue> lllcky Hold thv hey to This I Dlclty put his hand over my mouth
Ntraiige Situation! !iu exaggerated burlesque.
Dicky turned from the telephone ' "Don't say it," he begged. Don t
and came back to the chair where (utter the awful swear words thai
I sat racking my bewildered brain ! are trembling on your pure young
for the solution of the problem his Hps. Count five and twenty, Tatty-
account of his mysterious summons ' coram."
had given me. | A Surprising Question.
"Now, there's a simple query I'd ' The referenco to the absurd little
like to put to you, old dear," he said, discipline so pictruesquely portrayed
sitting on the arm of the chair and by Dickens, and which Dicky and I
slipping his arirf' around my should- often had used as a catch word, com-
ers. But there was a hint of stern- pieted the rout of my ill temper. I
ness In his voice thut warned me giggled outright, and he removed his
something a bit unpleasant was com- hand from my lips with an cxaggcr-
lug, and I could very well guess what j ate(j gjgjj cf relief.
it was. ; "Now you're shouting," he said.
"Will you kindly tell mo why In ; ..q0 on sp|j| beans and be quick
blazes you registered us Mrs. Black ] about it. Who we're the frends that
at this hotel? Of all the fool stunts! ] picked you up and brought you
Of course, you never can tell what a bore?"
woman will do. but 1 did give you . j was mai{CjOUa enough to wish to
credit for at least nno-fourth of an myBtlfv him just a little.
idea rattling around in your bean. l dI(ln't flee a solli i knew from
I drew awav slightly, but decidedly i |hp ()jm> j ,oft ]>rj,igehampton until
from his encircling arm. N u wa|ke(j jnt0 the room a few min-
"I infer then that under no circum- u^eg UK0," I said emphatically.
stances does a man ever registei Dicky dropped his arm and stared
under a name not his own. My tone ^
was as frigid as ray mental tempera- «We'|j j-ji be d—d!" he said. "I am
ture. Dicky tightened the grasp or his BUre lhal j understood the woman
arm and compelled my return to its pcrfcct,y over the telephone."
shelter. ^ jj0 doubt you did." I returned.
••But <io On. "She simply wasn't telling the truth.
At least ho has a legitimate—or j j um y great more mysti-
j Illegitimate reason for so doing, he ^an you can possibly be. Now,
I said with a grin. "And nothing do ^ you'll promise not to interrupt.
I ing. old dear, in the high and mighty nf>r tQ 8CO|(i untn you've heard the
offended dignity pose. You've got us • whojc storv, I'll tell you all about
both in a (Jevll of a mess, and I'd jt..
like to know how we're going to get j 0jam or an oyser would be a
out of it. But that can wait, al- talkative guv, beside me," he prom-
though not very long, for I can t ise{J "Go ahead!"'
j linger around here many minutes, j j seme(] myself more comfortably
So get busy, old dear, and spill your agajnfit *iis arm. and related every
reason, or rather your excuse. You | incj(ient of my journey with its irri-
couldn't have had anything that i tating delay upon the stalled train
could bo dubbed a reason." i and the accident which had made me
My mental thermometer took a j |()ae consciousness for a minute or
bound from subnormal to typhoid two. I omitted no detail in my de-
TODAY
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
.Hiss LillleN Health.
"Has anybody seen Lillio?" That's
a newspaper heading in Texas. Lil-!
lie, last name Taylor, is a colored
young lady, 25 years old, unmarried, I
recently engaged as a cleaning worn-!
an, living in a dilapidated little
shanty. Now she is called "the rich-
est colored woman In the world." A
court decision gives her oil lands
worth fifteen million dollars.
The law protects property rights,
says the owner may do as he pleases
with "his own." ir ho injures nobody.
What will Miss Taylor do with her
fifteen millions? How many white
people, do you suppose, would revise
their views on the rights of property,
if the young lady decided to celebrate
by buying the finest house at Palm
Beach, or on Fifth avenue. New York,
or the I>ake Front in Chicago, and
drive out every day in a coach-and-
four with two white men in livery
sitting up in front, and two more in
the back? The young lady will do
nothing of the kind, but all our fine
views about "property rights" are
held with certain reservations.
Well Managed Empire.
I.ast Saturday you could buy an
assortment of our government bonds
well below par. while Canadian
bonds sold at par on our markets.
Congratulations to our Canadian
brothem. but how do you explain it?
The British Empire and Its parts
have able management.
i.ducatiou and Success.
That able Jewish newspaper, the
Day. asks: "Is education necessary j
to success?" Henry Ford will an-
swer NO, and prove It. Fortunately, j
he Is right, for there are probably ,
fewer than 1,000 really educated
men in America. Mere going to col-
lege, reading books, knowing histori-
cal dates or having sopped up knowl-
edge is not education. Of educated
men the greatest number are in Ger-
many; next comes France, then Erig- ,
land. Italy. Russia or this country
would compete for fourth place i
'REAL education comes through pas
sionate seeking for knowledge for
years after preliminary school edu-
cation is ended. The test of educa-
tion is what it PRODUCES, not what
it knows by heart.
4.as Tnist Wealth.
The supreme court irscldes that an
eighty-cent gas law is confiscatory,
therefore unconstitutional. It takes
a corporation's property without due
process of law. The court is prob-
ably right, and it is certainly honest.
And protection for capital against
confiscatory legislation or other
perhaps it will find a way to get
along at the new rates.
This is not to question the estab-
lished fact that all is for the best In
another form of wealth. If railroads, to cal1 inal confiscatory, uuuor is > best possible of worlds, but just
knitting mills, steel plants, coal told to go hungry for a while, then; to point out that, if you have your
, cb0|CC( it i8 better to be capital than
j action is necessary if civilization, aa I mines arbitrarily decide to make
understand it, is to go on. wages lower, and If labor says, "I
But what a difference between cap- ^u'^^ive," there is no supreme court
to call that confiscatory. Labor is
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright, 1921, The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
THE INCOME TAX BLANK
//vc one
TAX
fever height.
"You have no right to say any-
thing like that!" I sputtered.. "You
have no more idea what I have gone
through than the—than the—"
"Babe unborn," put in Dicky with
a provoking grin. "That's a good,
time-honored smile. Ain't 1 the nifty
little thesaurus? You never ought
to travel without me. But go on.
.This is just what I want to know,
i 2Sr i-i. . „ „ what have you gone through? Your
1 The P"b c sar3 «" ,he monop. e hint at things unrevealed by
oly, "We wont pay more thai eighty mystcriouS dulcet-voiced woman
i^Cve corrern^;
ties it. The great Hope textile mills woman
I at Providence told its workmen "We j respondent wa.s a
1 shall pay you only so much," and
I yesterday afternoon Rhode Island
1 cavalry, coast artillery, deputy sher-
j iffs and police were all out to help
the mills enforce their view of a fair
price for labor. All right, doubtless,
ibut there Is a difference.
Anyhow, gas stock Jumped up ten
.pblnts in Will street yesterday and
some one was happy.
telephone cor-
' I began hotly.
seription ot the mysterious foreigner
who had forced his attention upon
me with the story of his' being a
friend of my father and wishing to
find out his address. And I laid par-
ticular stress upon the pains I had
taken to elude the mysterious
stranger, including my registration
under the name of Mrs. Black at the
hotel. At the end of the rocital
Dicky gazed at me with quizzical
eyes.
"And you pretend to have been
somewhat of a government sleuth,"
he said, "and can't figure that out?
That bump on your bean must have
been harder than I thought."
We've figured out our assets
And put them 011 the blank;
We'ye written out the facts about
Our money in the bank.
The cash in hand that we command
Is down in black and white,
But still we quail with fears of jail—
They probably aren't right.
Arithmetic appalled us.
We could not learn a rule:
It made us sad to have to add
Or multiply in school.
At problems which were set us/
We labored all day long,
We tore our hair in dumb despair^
And always got them wrong.
We've studied the directions
The government supplies,
And only find they strain our mind
And tangle up our eyes.
We read and read them over
Then walk the floor and cuss,
But all in vain; they're just as plain
As so much Greek to us.
We've put down all the income
We think that we have got,
And yet, somehow, it strikes us now
That we've left out a lot.
However, it is finished,
We've lai'd aside our pen;
We'd rather go to jaTl we know
than Jill it out again!
CO-OPERATION
CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTES $12,000
Co-operative League of America.
Checks for more than $12,000 in. The society did a business of $3u!V
the form of savings-returns were 000 In 1921. In 1920 the income was
given out by the Soo Co-operativo | $365,000 on account of the highef
found, hideously Kinea aim muu-1 Mercantile association, of Sault Ste prjCes existing at that time. As
is ed, all in exactly the same man- Marie, Mich, at the ninth annual
ncr it mjtv have been done by an meeting of the assoicatlon. accord 4
Distance Kills Interest.
Distance makes a difference. Near
Moscow eleven young women are
found, hideously killed and rauti
I, may have been done by an j meeting -- .—
individual maniac, as In London i g to reports received by The Co- cent the business of the society has
"ripper" crimes, or as part of some operative League of America, checks really Increased. The working capi-
monstrous new religious idea. Ouf | ranging from $1.25 to more than S36# | tai of *19.000 _ was turned over 1-
newspapers print ten lines. Suppose
the bodies had been found half
mile from our city hall. What pages!
What pictures! We pay as little at-
tention to millions dying of hungef
in Russia as to this group of mur-
dered bodies. It must be so. If we
really felt all the world's misery
there would be time for nothing else.
A Task for Rockefeller.
John D. Rockefeller announced re-
centlv the giving of about $2,000,000
to education. Thut is what counts, j
Those dollars will be working here
long after they are spent and we arc
dead. Ideas and truth arc born of
education and never die.
Years ago Mr. Rockefeller would
have put the money into a cathedral
or other monument, to perpetuuate
his name and gain favor above.
w-ire paid out to the members. The times during the past year, and tho
stockholders received 5 per cent re- consumers saved % 12,000 by means or
bates on their purchases during theia co-operative investment ot almost
year and the patrons of the co-op the same amount of money. Instead
who had not bought stock received!of lending their money to the banks
2>A per cent of their purchases as a I which extend credit to the profiteer-
rebate This was in addition to 6 per ing private merchants, the consum-
cent paid to stockholders as interest ers of the Soo City are wisely using
for the use of their money. I their money in their own stores.
UZZI.ERS.
man buy a cap for his
A ORE AT KX01US.
Mennonite farmers are leaving
Canada with their families in tens
of thousands. A large colony is be-
ing established in Mexico, and an-
other in Alabama. Within the pres-
ent year Canada wil be practically
without Mennonite citizens.
Kansas values its Mennonite farm-
ers very highly, and knowing their
He ought to establish some one j worth. cannot but marvel that Can-
monument. to make the world gasp, . H(ja should in any way alienate the
and this is suggested: i sympathies of such citizehs. The
Mr. Rockefeller, try the suggestion j Mennonite^ of Kansas are sturdy,
made by scientists. Dore down into honest, industrious, hard-working,
the earth the necessary number of j jU8tjoe-lovlng citizens, the best of
j miles to tap the hidden fires and uu- neighbors and the best of farmers.
limited sources of heat and power. ^rime is almost unknown among
It has been said the undertaking them The>. .lttend strictly to their
would pot cost more than fifty mil-1 own bu,|ne>s „or6hlp God accord.
"ona, about the cost of running a , h h own rel|g|OU, beliefs. Can the
r ^ -d the state Is the better for their
I have tapped, experimentally, inside, .
the Arctic circle To go inside the Presence Mexico cannot do better
Arctic for oil required Imagination than tolicqulre many such citizens,
and courage. How much finer to go! Wichita taglc.
down inside the earth and forever |
settle the problem of heat and power. ,Mi
You would be entitled to as many There are two valid reasons w-hy
billions in return as you might choose a citizen should not tie himself to
to take although probably that would I any political party. One of them is
interest you little. We are like mi-I the Republican Governor of Illinois
crobes crawling around on the sur- and the other is the Democratic Gov-
face of a huge cheese, never going ernor of Oklahoma. St. Louis Post-
deep enough to get at its real wealth. 1 D'spatch.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means commit-
tee has at last found a solution of the bonus problem. The
(solution is a gold-brick bonus—a bonus that the ex-service men
will get, but the people will not have to pay, at least for a long
time.
The plan being worked out by the subcommittee will pro-
vide for a bonus which "will not entail any large drafts on
the treasury within two years." The postponed payments are
to be made so attractive that no ex-service men will want cash
payments.
The bonus device is ingei.ious. The ex-service men will
have a promise to pay some sort of a bonus and the congress-
men who voted for it hope to get their votes. The promise-to-
pay bonus will not require much cash, will be a substitute for
a campaign fund and will not increase taxation now—what
could be cleverer! Of course, the people will pay 3ome time-
after the election.
There is neither principle nor ordinary honesty in this
political bonus sehe™.° « what difference does that make?
\ gold-brick bonus is i 'v moduct of a gold-brick house, in
which principle counts i'< riOi'.iing and politics rules.
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knee?
r a key for a lock of his hair?
Can his eyes #be called an academy
Because there are pupils there?
In the crown of his head what gems
are set?
Who travels the bridge of hi:*
nose?
Can he use, when shingling the roof
of his mouth,
The nails on the end of his toes?
What docs he raise from a slip of
his tongue?
Who plays on the drums of his
ears?
And can you tell the cut and style
Of the coat his stomach wears?
rook of his elbow be sent
to jail?
And if so. what did it do?
How does he sharpen his shoulder
blades?
I'll be hanged if I know—do you?
—Boston Evening Transcript.
"De man dat shouts de loudest at a
camp meetinV said Uncle Eben.
"often loses his voice by de time
anybody asks him fob a subscription
to build a church."—Washington
Star.
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