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Editorial
Oklahoma Leader
I I'i'utHrc^
OKLAHOMA LEADER
Published every day except Sunday by The Oklahoma. Leader Co.
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a Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3. I879-
STARVATION FOR TEXTILE WORKERS
The textile mill strikers of Rhode Island—45,000 of them
—are battling against a 20 per cent reduction of wages and
an increase in working hours from 48 to 51.
Their wages were reduced 22% per cent about a year ago.
The average wage before the strike was about $18.71 a week.
With a 20 per cent cut, this would be reduced to $14.97.
It is humanly impossible in these days of high prices and
high rents for a family to live on such a wage. It is literally
a starvation wage—for its recipients would slowly starve to
death, depleting their physical strength, lowering their resist-
ance and becoming the prey to every disease that comes along.
Tho present scale—$18.71 per week—is also a starvation
wage. Even capitalist paper reports that there is "evidence
of unsanitary and deplorable living conditions everywhere."
The employer# claim that they cannot afford to pay the
present scale, but they will not permit their books to be exam-
ined. Nor will they tell how much profit they made during
the war, nor how much they have made aince.
If they cannot successfully run the industry and pay
liTtog wages, it is a further proof of the fact that capitalism j RLUDSO OF THE
has broken down and is not able to serve the purposes of j I>|? A TRIP REI LE
aociety. In that case, they ought to confess their failure. ...
With the textile workers getting the starvation wage of: John Haj-.
$18.71 a week, it is evident that the high prices paid by the wjji^ tali**
people for the products of these mills cannot be accounted for U(ltwayli l>P> got out of the habit
on the theory that wages are too high. Excessive profits all! of livin' like you and me.
along the line, including excessive freight charges, account for h™ ^h ve ^you^been Ior thc u,t
the profiteering prices. Any honest man will admit this.
Yet we find bankers and big business men still insisting
that wages must come down before prices can come down and
industries open up! It is their method of trying to escape
guilt by shoving it off onto the other fellow.
The colossal nerve of employers in trying to lengthen
hours of labor when the country is full of unemployed de-
serves universal condemnation. This utter selfishness and
heartlessness further prove that the present managers of
society have lost all the fitness they ever had for the job.
Drawn by William Cropper for The Worker (New York) and The Federated Press.
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN—"We can do all the shooting and burning and kiling that's
needed in God's own country."
NEW ANTI-BONUS PLOT
They work in the dark—these crooked politicians who
pull the wires behind the scenes—but we all know that they
have been putting obstructions in the way of the soldiers'
bonus all along—and their newest scheme seems to be a plan
to let the bonus go through the lower house and then kill
it in the senate.
This is an old trick. It has been worked time after time
on labor bills. Apparently the soldiers are to get a taste
of it, too.
In every congressional district there will be an election
next fall for member of the lower house. The politicians
in that house are shivering in their shoes lest they should
do something or say something that would lose them a vote
or two. Most of them are undoubtedly opposed to the bonus,
but they dare not vote against it for fear of the soldier vote.
In the senate the situation is different. A senator's
term of office is six years. Accordingly, only one-third of
*Hhe senators come up for re-election every two years. The
other two-thirds of the senators are free to vote against the
bonus. They can trust the thing to be smeared over by other
issues before they themselves come up for re-election two
or four years hence. The forgetfulness of the American voter
is proverbial anyhow. It is only when he is on the alert
that Ws vote is to be feared.
Dare they carry out this plan?
That you haven't heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed in his
checks
The night of the Prairie Belle?
He wcrn't no saint—tham engineers
Is all pretty much alike—
One wife In Natchez-Undef*Che-Hlll
And another one here, in Pike;
A keerless man In his talk was Jim,
And an awkward hand in a row.
But he never flunked, and he never
lied—
I rockon he never knowed how.
And this was all the religion hej
bad—
To treat his engine well:
Never be passed on the river,
To mind the pilot's bell:
And if over the Prairie Bell took
fire—
A thotreand times he swore
He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank 1
Till the last soul got ashore.
II boats has their days on the
Mlasisslp.
And her day came at last—
The Movaatar was a better boat,
But the Belle she wouldn't be
passed.
And so she came tearing along that
night -
The oldest craft on the line —
With a n'gger squat or her safety j
valve
And uc furnace crammed, rosin
and pine.
The fire burst out as she cleared the
bar.
And burnt a hole in the night.
And as quick ns a flash she turned
and made
For that wilier bank on tho right.
There was runnin' and cursln,' but
Jim yelled out
Over all the infernal roar:
I'll hold her nozzle again the bank
Till the laet galoot's ashore!"
WOULDN'T HAVE TO LITE IN' IT.
"I tell you," went on the elderly
woman at the hotel, getting quite
huffy. "I won't have this room. I
ain't going to pay my money for a
place that isn't big enough to swing
a cat. and for sleeping in one of them
folding beds, 1 simply won't do it!"
The boy could stand it no longer.
"Get on in, mum," said he. with a
weary expression on his face. "This
ain't your room: it's the lift,"—Ed- 1 or land or life, if freedom fatl
inburgh Scotsman. Emerson.
TODAY
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Who IVere Ton
An architect, aged 5l>,
wandering, unable to tell
or where he lives. That "amnesia'
interests us. We forget that the bil-
lion and a half human beings on
earth ALL have amnesia.
Who ARE you, really? Where were
you 100 years ago* Where will you
he, and where will you live 100 years
from now? What we call "conscious
life" is just a flash of consciousness
in eternity. Amnesia victims often
have such flashes.
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MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS j
Adde Garrison's New Phise of
-J'1 Revelations of a Wife I
found: I CWT...I, im «r ! .«
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W hy Dick; l.o-t One 1'iiint and Won
Another.
Feminine moods and react} ns are
curious things, almost as odd as
those characteristic of the mascu?
line mind.
I had been exalted almost to hero
worship of my husband while I had
listened to the war reminescences of
himself and Dr. McDermott. But the
curtness and evident distaste with
which he met my enthusiastic com-
ment when the little physician hud
Blend Birds of Nice.
At Nice, where in winter the idle
from all over the world walk on the . ,
Promenade in Anglais. men sell tin y ardor eWectualiy and made me
birds like parrots, beautifully col- J captious,
was able to smother my resentment
and to answer bim with disarming
matter-of-factness.
"They said they would serve it in
half an hour," I returned, "so you
won t have to hurry.
"I won't?" Dicky drawlod provok-
ingly. "Isn't that sweet of you? Real
considerate, I call it. But if you
think I'm going to get up to break-
fast in half an hour you've got sev-
eral more thinks coming, that's all.
Cat ray order yourself or counter-
departed from the hotel suite chilled Tnund a^,onte *° An(1 for
goodness sake shut that door again.
unreasonable—and
ored. wonderfully tame. They sit on ,
a little stick held in your fingers.
happy.
m going to sleep.'
I obeyed with a furtive smile,
I slept but fitfully in the comfort knowing that although Just now he
... 1 fiv ,wav lble bul (strange bed, and wakened believed every word he was saying.
A w oman has discovered that the j ^ ~
UnTouT'the P^r"Rcr« tires'"eyes, 'urtatns with a vague feeling of ^ i bear the traditional ratio a lesson
nothing they fear everything,I pression, which deepened to poaltlvo which I learned long ago, but which
fear especially' to lose their bold on pettlahness as I heard Dicky snoring | cost m°_ man>' lj'tt.e.r tearB an(i un"
lhat little stick ' -there was no softening name for it \ necessary tears in the learning.
That Is how we feel about this
earth; blind to what is beyond it, we
cling desperately. If we could see
heyond and know what is outside,
should we fly aw in millions,
through the doors of death, as those
poor birds would fly, If they could
see?
in the bed next to mine. I "Oh, Dicky!
I rose upou my elbow and looked j That he would grumble all through
at him sprawled comfortably upon the meal I also felt assured by ex-
his back with his mouth open. Even i perience, and, therefore, was agree-
New Milton Poem.
A new poem by John Milton is
discovered. Written early, it prob-
ably has little value. But millions
will read it in newspapers, if it is
short enough—while of every ten
able to read, nine certainly know
nothing of Milton's real work.
than discovering some-
LIBERTY.
"Vile slaves laugh in mockery at
this word of Liberty."—Rousseau.
"The great are only great because ] Better
we are on our knees; let us then i Pe"."-r " °Y~~
rise uD " Brissot to make the great poets discover
up. Brissot. i R (ew hull(|re(l millions of the
"Know ye not. who would be free. empty brains.
themselves must strike the blow?"— Advertising men should read
Byron. | some tetters written by Milton ft*
"For what avail the plough or sail, 'cromwell, when Milton was Crom-
I well's secretary, also his slam-bung
j discussion with a certain Dutch
ably surprised by his evident good
humor when he appeared in the sit-
ting room just after the waiter came
in with the breakfast.
"Now, what's the program?" he
asked when the waiter had served
the grapefruit and we were discuss-
ing it. "Have you any idea where
you're going to begin to hunt for
so good-looking a chap as my bus
band could not overcome such a
handicap, and I said to myself cross-
ly that he looked like anything but
the romantic hero I had put upon a
shrine while I listened to the little
doctor's saga.
I was going along very comfort-
ably in a pettish inventory of tho
deepening lines—imperceptibly when I Katie?
he is awake and animated—which j "I have the address of her cousins,
the years *ere bringing to Dicky's | the only relatives she has in this
face, when I chanced to get another j country. I am sure she isn't there,
salutary glance at my black eye and ' she's too active and restless not to
discolored forehead in the mirror. I ; have found work at once, but they'll
shuddered at the thought which know her address, no doubt."
came to me of the narrow escape I | "Why can't 1 go down and inter-
had had by awakening early. Sup- ' view them?" he asked, "aud locate
pose Dicky had awakened first and J Katie myself? Not that I want to
had inventoried my appearance. j talk to her when I do find out where
I crept out of bed noiselessly and she is," he amended hastily. "That's
bathed and dressed without waken- your job. I'd only make a botch of
uwu Dicky. Years of housekeeping It. But I'd like to spare you every
They'd'find" there the "kick'' fftve one *be advantage of knowing | appearance in public with that lamp
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright, 1921. The Bell 8yndlc*U. Inc.)
a backward looking man
WHAT OTHERS SAY
"1 wanted my descendants
To be bullfrogs," said the newt.
"A frog has independence,
He's crafty and astute.
He needn't dwell forever
In one unending groove—
But Mr. Bryan never
Would approve."
'The families I've founded,"
Observed the jellyfish,
"I hoped might be surrounded
By all a fish could wish.
But there is no use tryin'
To give the kids a lift—
For William Jennings Bryan
Would be miffed."
"1 haven't the ambition,"
The wombat used to whine,
"To better the condition
Of progeny of mine.
My soul it much embitters
To think they have no chance—
But Bryan says us critters
Can't advance."
jUimpH
that they long to get in their style.
Jeffries, Preacher.
I In a soft silk shirt, with neat wide
i bright stripes of white, purple and
i yellow, Mr. Jeffries, ex-heavyweight
prize fighter, began yesterday his
(Career as preacher. "It's nobody's
! business if I want to swear, smoke
land drink, so long as my heart is
i right. Let your conscience be your
guide," he says.
That's a broad platform, wider
than usual, but you have to think of
something new in these days of
competition. It will remind Jeffries
of his last great fight if he ever
mets Billy Sunday In the new ring
he has chosen.
John U Sullivan did not exactly
preach, although he was the great-
est of all fighters since Duguesclin.
But he did lecture on temperance
and consulted this writer concern-
ing his letture. Fate had made him
a temperance lecturer, he said. He
would have preferred to lecture on
patriotism.
the breakfast tastes of one's family. 1 that I can, and resting here this
so with the bedroom door closed, I morning would be better for your
telephoned an order to the dining- nerves than traipsing around the tor-
room for grapefruit, cereal, bacon, ; eign sections of the city,"
eggs, muffins and coffee for two, with I "You're awfully kind, Dicky," I
the certainty that Dicky would ap- said, "and very plausible. I think
prove of and enjoy the meal,
"Real Considerate.**
He called to me as I hung up the
telephone, and as I opened the bed-
room door I saw that bis morning
mood matched my own.
"What's the big idea?" he demand-
ed crossly. "Here you are getting
up in the middle of the night and
waking everybody in the hotel! Do
you thinft they'll send up breakfast
at this time in the morning?"
His irritation put the match to
mine. But the thought of the task I
had before me put out the flame al-
most before it had kindled, and I
I'll accept your offer."
"That's sensible," he beamed, evi-
dently pleased with my prompt,
acquiescence. "And no doubt you'll
need all your strength and nerves
when you try to snatch Katie from
the kitchen of some uppcr-west-side
apartment. I can imagine the frozen
face some dame is going to show
you."
"Oh, Dicky" I ejaculated in dis-
may, and I reiterated the exclama-
tion mentally many times during the
hours that followed while I waited
tensely for my husband's return
with news of Katie.
THE BANKERS' AND TRADE UNIONS
A VERY LEARNED JUDGE
And so these timid creatures
Emotionless and mute.
Retained their ancient features
And didn't evolute.
The newt might be a lion,
The jellyfish a trout—
But William Jennings Bryan
Scared 'em out!
Through the hot. black breath of the
hurnin' boat
Jim Uludso's loice was beard.
And they all had trust in his cussed-
ness
And knowed he would keep his
word.
And sore's you're born, they all got
off
Afore the smokestacks fell —
And Hludso's ghost went up alone
j In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.
New York Call.
We are curious to know just how the r linds of some judges j He weren't no saint but at jedgment
work, but from the nature of the case we can never fully know.
The average judge labors under the handicap of thinking in
terms of ancient legal lore, while his associations do not enable
him to understand the life and struggles of the masses. Never-
theless, he is generally quick to offer advice in economics and
sociology, something which his training has unfitted him to
understand.
A Kings county judge suspended the sentence of a 16-year-
old boy charged with petty larceny. While performing this
act of leniency he plunged into his inner consciousness and . , . _ , _
found an explanation of why the boy had found his way into "cording "* Ws own confes" Bryamsm.
J s'on. be was always one of toe greit- longer is there any honor among thieves. Bandits
worker pe'" " I robbed a New York man who vas on his way to a bucket shop^
Denison (Tex.), Church IS'ews.
Now having asserted the righteous- know he is not in the "union;"
ness of the principle of limiting the ! and before our banker friends
What It .Means. number who enter the profession of1 insist that the unions become in-
Senators Ix>dge and Underwood j banking, organized banking assumes corporated and assume the respon-
showed clearly, in the senate, that | the responsibility of vouching for nihility of their member-unionists,
at least one of them does not know those who engage in that business, 'hose bankers, to be consistent,
i what the Four-Power treaty means, j but only do they do this for the ones should help the "labor unions" to
iOne said that it meant one thing, the . who have been admitted to the
other, another. If those men that sat ! "union" upon conditions that arc sat-
listening, like provincial owls, while isfactory to them; and, furthermore,
I the wool was pulled over their eyes, more, after the government has
don't know what the treaty means, forced anyone else who enters that
how much can the senators gener- line or endeavor to at all times when
ally know? Lodge and Underwood. . in public carry the sign, word "bank"
nominally, helped to frame It. In j on his door, window, in a newspaper
reality it wap handed to them. ' or on bis stationery, without the
Japan could tell the two learned j word "unincorporated, or something ( has, before you ask him to assume
gentlemen what the treaty means, sol which means the same, unless that j the same responsibility, and when
can England If the republican party ! bank Is incorporated—that is that the I you do this we are persuaded you
it that treaty will soon mean \ public may know that the hankers
union" will not be responsible for
Ids acts, and when connected with
tne sentiment which has been and
which is being created and crystal-
ized it means nothing but of "doubt-
ful standing.'' Now we believe it is
right that this should be so. and we
believe that the banks who form the
"bankers' union" should stand by
each other, and believing this, we be-
get a law passed which will make
every "unionized" man display at all
times when in public, and every
"uuionized" factory, store and bank
place on their windows, doors and
stationery the fact that they are
unionized. In other words, give th^
"unionized laborer" the same prote« -
tion which "unionized banker" now
that
run my chances with Jim,
'Longslde of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shook hands with |
him.
He seen his duty-a dead-sure thing
And went for it thar and then;
And Christ ain't a-going to be too
hard '
On a man that died for men.
ADMITS IIV. IS rKAC KABI.E.
Why wasn't ex-Kaiser Bill invited
^qW\9^
something, at the ballot box,
will surprise good republicans.
David Hand, who lived near Ash-
ley Grace, at Fanwood. forty-five
years ago, had a cow that got an
apple stuck in her throat. She
swelled up. Mr. Marsh, the butcher.
—there was no veterinary—said to
make a hole in her side between two
ribs, let the air out, and she'd be all
right. Mr. Hall, who had four teams,
said no. While they argued the ccpv
died.
Some one ought to tell that to the
gentlemen at Washington arguing
about the soldiers' bonus.
It is unfortunate that we can never know Darwin's opinion
court. He is reported as saying:
It is because they are not trained properly in skilled labor that
in the winter they must stand on the street corner and dance 10 keep
their toes warm In the summer they stand on the same corners
without overcoats. Their fathers are members of trade unions that
have combined to withhold the knowledge of skilled labor from them.
Indirectly, it is their fathers who are to blame when finally they
turn criminal.
Thus the learned man calls our attention to a fact. There
me boys who stand on the corner with nothing in particular to
occupy their time. They waste it. Having fixed upon this fact,
he proceeds to a coi . lusion and concludes that the fathers of
these boys "are membi of trade unions that have combined
to withhold the knowledg, >f skilled labor from them."
How does he reach thm nclusion? He does not know
and nobody else knows. He could just as well have said that
their mothers waste their time at sewing circles or go to the
movies too often. One conclusion would have been just as
sensible and just as logical as the other. One could jUBt as
well have followed as the other.
Perhaps the learned {nan is an adept in some mysterious
occult philosophy which enables him to fathom the minds of
those who are brought into his court. Perhaps not. It is
probable that he iR simply a judge of the more pompous sort
who does not like the idea of wofkers imitating the closed shop
union which his claaa has established.
A MATTER OK ('F.I MATE.
"What does that picture repre-
sent?" asked Mr. Wadleigh.
"Venus rising from the sea," said
the art dealer.
"Gosh! She hasn't any clothes on.
I couldn't have a picture like that in
my house. Show me a hunting
scene."
"Here you are, sir. Diana of the
chase."
"She's not dressed, either. Better
show me a picture of some Eskimo;
hunting seals."—Birmingham Age
Herald.
will find them as ready to incorpor-
ate and assume responsibility as is
the banks. Yea. they will be anxious
to do so, for with that will come the
right to regulate by law duties of
the members to the unions and with
that will come the means of enforc-
ing these. We insist that if this sec-
ond principle is right in banking,
and we believe it is. then it is right,
in the labor world, and if it's wrong
lleve the fellow who is not in the. application occasionally in the bank-
"union should be branded and forced ' ing world does not effect its righte-
to display his brand because the ousness, neither would its wrong ap-
principle is right, and if this prin- plication in the labor world effect its
ciple is right in banking, it is right j righteousness there, and let our
in the trades, and if that principle readers keep always before them the
is right in the trades, the man ; great fact that in this article we are
who is not "unionized" should be j now discussing principles, not appli-
so branded, that the world may \ cation of principles. ^
WITHIN HER LIMITATIONS.
Salesman — Would you be willing
! to give me a testimonial, madam, as
| to the truth of our statement that
Sudao does not harm the most dainty
| fabrics?
Customer—Well, 1 am perfectly
HAD NOTHING BI T SENS*.
Among the guests at a reception
was a distinguished mau of letters. J
He was grave and somewhat tacit- ,
urn.
One of the ladies present suggested 1 ..JJ
to the hostess that be .seemed to be wtujng t0 state over my signature
out of place at such a party. j doesn't for me. I never use
"Yes," replied the hostess, with a it. -Retail Ledger, Philadelphia.
bright smile, "you see. he can't talk 1
anything but sense!" — Edinburgh Girl students of the University of
Scotsman. 'Oregon have organized a rifle team.
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