Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 199, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 4, 1922 Page: 3 of 6
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PAGE FOUR
OKLAHOMA LEADER
OPEN SHOPPERS
'Unions Are Coming Back,"
Economist Declares.
MY MARRIAGE
PROBLEMS
JLdtU Coum'I Htm Pkmt 4
Revelations
of a Wife
By Federated Press.
MILWAUKEE, April 4.—A warn- rh(1 ,U()|tP Slowly Men Com
Little Future Wearers of the Laurel
I y NELL CRINKLEY
Copyright, Int. Feature Service, Inc.
ing to employers to desist from their
"open shop" campaign unless they
■wish to be annihilated, was sounded !
by Roger W. Babson, business statis-
tical expert, in his bulletin read to
the Federeted Trades council by
Frank .T. Webbe, its general secre
tary. The bulletin, headed Time to
Think About I<abor. declares:
"Empoyers the country over have
been swinging the tomahawk for the
past 18 months. The days for such
activity arc now drawing to a close.
It is time to think and reasoln.
"During the war, with the approv-
al of some of the best minds in the
nation, the practice of collective bar-
gaining was set up in hundreds of
places where previously no such
thing bad prevailed. Of late, fol-
lowing the lead of United States
Steel, many firms have gone back
to the individual bargain plan—some
with a castiron individual contract
which binds the employ© never to
join a union or any other labor or-
ganization—and a systematic cam-
paign of 'union busting' baa gone in-
to effect.
"No Brief for Unions.*
"Again, a new form of industrial
government has been set up—gov-
ernment by injunction.
"We hold no brief for unions or
unionism, as they exist. We are
aware of the faults, excesses and
crimes of unions. Wo believe that
in many, many cases the unions, as
they are run, are labor's worst en-
emy. The employer who flatters
himself, however, that the open shop
campaign has put unionism off the
map, is grossly deceived. We may
settle down upon the fundamental
fact that labor brings terms and
conditions of sale which satisfy its
own ideas. If the labor people want
unions, they are going to have them,
no matter what we think about it.
"The unions are coming back-
chastened aud improved, we hope,
by the experience of the past few
months—but still coming back to
take the field because they are going
to be labor's own best means of get-
ting such market conditions as it
wishes. So with the growing vol-
ume of Industrial machinery which
has been built up in industry, the
personnel department, the shop com-
mittee, the various expedients de-
signed to help labor's situation—
these things are all coming back.
"Employers have been running
with the tide for the past 18 months.
Before long the tide will be setting
the other way.
"In the fierce competition of the
next decade the plant with a sane
labor policy will be able to get out
its product, to market it. to sell Its
securities, to satisfy its stockhold-
ers.
"Other plants will fail at some or
all of these points. It is, therefore,
time now for intelligent employers
to hang up the tomahawk and take
down the neglected machinery for
tndustrial peace. You have gone as
far as you can by fighting."
ONE BETTER.
"Yes," sighed Jones to bis friend.
"I had the prettiest little garden
that, you ever did see."
"And how is it looking now?"
asked the friend.
"Ruined!" groaned Jones. "My
neighbor's chickens scratched it up."
"Did you do anything0" asked his
friend.
"I did." was Jones's sinster reply.
"I got a big cat that soon made
mincemeat of his chickens."
"Then what did he do?"
"He bought a bulldog, and the
brute killed my cat."
"But you weren't beaten, Jones?
"No. I borrowed a wolf from an
animal trainer I knew, and the wolf
put an end to his bulldog."
"Well, what happened then '"
"A little later I heard he was
about to buy a tiger to kill my woII
and as I could not afford to pur
rhase an elephant to kill the tiger I
gave up all hope of ever getting my
garden to look nice again."—Hous-
ton Post.
inand of Herself.
It took all the courage 1 possessed
to get out the last words of my an
I swer to Dicky's angry dictum that
II should cease aiding Lillian in her
| government work. There teemed
something very mea t and ungracious
in my reference to his mother. I felt j
this keenly, even though I kuew that 1
I did not mean a word of what I was
saying, and was talking thus only in
the hope of bringing Dicky to see
that what he had asked of me was
as unreasonable from my point of
view as my answering extravagant
and nonsensical program would be
to his.
But get the words out I did, and
as it is my fortune or misfortune to
lose myself completely iu my own
imagination when my anger is
aroused, my dictum no doubt sounded
far more savage and final in Dicky's
ears than it did in my own. At any
rate, his reaction to it was sudden
and astonishing. With an oath, he
flung himself out of the car and
and turned on me a face distorted
with rage.
A Sudden Realization.
"Do whatever you cursed please!"
he shouted. "Go to the dickens and
break your neck, for all I care."
His face, his words, above all his
intonation were like a match thrown
into the powder magazine which my
nerve centers were at that moment..
For the second it took me to turn
my switch key and start the engine
aud for many minutes afterward I
was not a responsible being.
"I shall do my best to oblige you!"
I shrieked back at him, as the car
shot forward.
I had not turned it around when
we bad driven into the little glade,
so that the direction in which I drove!
was away from home, a fact which
gave me a savage joy. I did not care I
at that tense moment whether I ever
saw my home again. I pressed the
accelerator down to its last notch
and flew along the winding road at
pace which was criminally reck-
less, and at which I would have
been appalled at any other time.
I thought I heard a hoarse shout
behind me, but I neither turned my
head nor slackened my pace. And
what saved m e from death or a
maiming accident only the little joss
which sometimes watches over fool
motorists could tell.
For at least five minutes I swept
along, careening around curves lit-
erally upon two wheels, aud rushing
along the straight stretches like a
mad thing. And gradually the rush
of the autumn breeze against my
face, the soothing quiet with which
all outdoor things take hold of me.
and the strain of the mechanical
control of the car which T was exer-
cising. brought down my mental
blood-heat to something approaching
the normal. For the first time I
thought of my little lad and realized
what I was doing.
Throes of Conscience.
The realization nearly precipitated
the accident which for miles I had
been miraculausly avoiding. A sud-
den cbill seized me. and I began to
tremble violently. The wheel swer-
ved in my grasp, and if I had been
a
/ PAA'.-J * *. \ I
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all in a row—little she's, and all little women who i anyone might dream here is a great comedienne! « issy. with the boyish i voice. And your
! hair and socks, scufTed shoes and ravaged knees, all boy save her heart I sad lust the sa
becomes a great mother; and there are famous mothers many.
The mother of a great suffragette and orator, a woman with a silver
tongue and voice of told, brings out her baby picture. And lo! It's a
bit of a girl with a blue slip, soft hands, soft face and demure, long, soft,
brown curls! Just a baby girl named Dorothy Jane!
Here is Joan! Fat and smiling, dimpled and golden, clutching a
flower with all her soul. A "snap"—the sun in her eyes and her hair
wound in them, and the frothy dress. THEN she was a professional ablow. The material in her slip is cheap and not nev Hut the light
beauty! Julia, with the stockings that were knit to last, the old-fashioned her eyes is rich and alive to sound. And one day you will pay joyously
apron, and the hair ribbon faded and glossed with the washings and your five or ten or twenty round dollars to hear her sinu! And
ironings that have been its lot—Julia, with the gallant little smile | sit wrapped in a magic cloak, drowned in the diamond streai
Here they are
will some day wear the laurel of fame.
Who could believe that crop-headed, boyiBh Sara, with the squint and
♦he Teddy-bear, will discover more magic in the scientific world some
day—something that will set the world by the two pricked ears! Bar-
bara. with the steadfast gray eyes and the "er—plain face,"' who speaks
at the Explorers' Club on the far places she has gypsied through, was
once this little beauty with the pale brown curls, the blue baby-ribbon
es Will ache with tears and your heart beat glad and
sad. Just the satne Joan wore blue-print and it did not cost very much!
And Mary, the dreamer, with the slow, soft eyes and always the
best love for her VELVET frock, the little girl with a lonely way with
her, who saw the sunset in the heaven before she did the toy at her feet.
a little chaser of hoops tnd obscure fancies perhaps she'll paint .«nd
write and give great dreams to the world from the head under her thatch
of fine dark hair. Who knows!
Look into the eyes and heart of your little daughter and wonder
and reverence and he afraid. For something looks hack at you of great-
mss and splendor! And if you will search and help—you may sense
ou wlU 1 the dim ghost-glow of Fame's halo 'hove her hair.
of her ! —NELL BRINKLEY.
ROLL OF HONOR
By
S. AMERINGER
Letters To The Leader JUDGE RUMM V
Tad
Pete Anderson. Gebo, Wyo.. also re-
news his subscription io the best labor
daily "east of Seattle."
Henry Coons, Canton. Okla.. xetn a
copy of the New Disciple by sending In
two yearly subscriptions.
Elmer Heaver, Hartford. Ark., is one
of a couple of hundred boys we need.
He starts out with ten copies a day.
Let's hope that he does as well as Jack
Blaaor.
Thou. Law. Williams. Okla.. record-
ing secretary local No. -450, United Mine
Workers of America, wins a copy of the
New Disciple by sending in two more
yearly subscriptions, besides a three
months' sub. to boot.
Jas. Barclay, Grimes. OkJa.. gets hi $S
for two yearly subscriptions and & copy
of The New Disciple.
H. H. Livingston. Wapanucka. Okla.,
sets in a new subscription for W. L. W.
Drennen.
J. W. Wylder. Chickasha. Okla., g*ts
in another new yearly subscription for
Chas. Brindley of Chickasha.
new weekly
leader.
going at the speed of a few seconds ' °8car Ameringer a* its editor, is a flashy
before, the car would have gone over n 18 *a,nin* a 1ar*e nationa
A 00UA* IS ALL
1 can wvr you
ru* z at
OLO gmai*
the embankment. But as it was I
was able to check the car just as it
grazed a tree, and when I had
brought it to a stop at one side of
the road I turned off the switch key.
drew the motor robe around me. and
for several minutes sat shamed and
shivering while remorse had its way
with me.
Remorse was not the only emotion
however, that I found in my heart.
My only throes of conscience were
for the risk of leaving my baby
motherless, which I had taken. Ms-
anger against Dicky was still as
fierce a flame as ever. 1 could not
forget the brutal words he had flung
at me. as he sprang from the car,
and 1 resolved that I would give him
ample time to reflect upon them be-
fore I went home again.
I felt in the pocket of my motor
coat, assured myself that my purse
was with me, knew that it contained
sufficient funds for a lunch and for
any possible minor accident to the
car *hich should demand a garage
man. The road on which I was led
to Southampton, and I resolved to go
ion to that town and on through the
'beautiful Shiunecock hills to the vil-
j lages beyond, at one of which, as my
J fancy directed. I could lunch, return-
ing home at my leisure.
I ran hastily over affairs, and was
sure that with Katie in the kitchen,
and with both Lillian and Katherine
in the house, there was no real need
of me for hours. And there wa/
! enough rancor at Dicky still stirring
) in me to make me gloat in feminin
fashion over the auxiety which I wa
I sure he would feel when 1 did not
return, and the explanations
would be compelled to make.
circulation, and will be, within a short
of the largest labor weeklies
In America.
D. Crouch. Muskogee. Okla . gets in
new subscription for M Duncan of
that city. Brother Crouch wrote for sup-
plies. and promised us he would put the
Leader on the map at Muskogee.
■I. R. Smith. Gerty, Okla.. writes us
that there is but little money in the
country at this time, however he suc-
ceeds in landing two yearly subs, and
hereby gets a copy of the New Dis-
ciple.
H. Ash by. Tulsa, Okla , writes. "I r
ceived the copy of the New Disciple and
have read it very carefully. | think it
a wonderful hook and that every work-
in gin an and woman should read it."
The Live Wire News Service. Mexia
Texas, orders 10 copies of the leader a
day for sale at their stand at 213 Com
merce street, Mexia.
H. E. Whitehouse, Ft. Cobb, is work
ing to get the workers into the Whit#
House at Washington. He sends in a
new suhsrripUon for J. E. R. Collins, of
Ft. Cobb.
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P. C. Martin, Terra!. Okla. gets in a
new subscription for I. r. Wooten of
Fled wood.
W. M. Bees'
Plant Farm. McLoud. Okla., get;
new subscription for I"
McLoud.
"Two punches I
W. H. Bre
Park. Okla.. when
subscriptions for a
a copy of The Ne
BUSINESS DAY BY DAY
ROOKS AUD CRITIC'S.
Editor Leader: Man is essentially
lazy intellectually, he inherits his
religion from his grand-father and
bis politics from his grand-father.
He has not the intellectual stamina
work out his own problems.
Progress is a constructive force of
destruction that breaks the barriers
of customs, conventions, morals, eth-
ics and the system of industry in life
that have outlived their usefulness
and must be supplanted by a new
mode, or the destiny of mankind has
reached lis acme, and we recede.
Literature is the art of interpret-
ing life, emotions, science, religion
and politics, and each phase of hu-
man activity within the scope of
social relationship.
History records that great think-
ers had to bear the vilest form of
criticism and oppression by the so-
cially and economically powerful un-
til they advanced to the heights of
the thinkers, and then, inevitably,
their greatness was recognized.
This is an attempt to reply to the
statements issued by our librarian,
Mrs. Mabel H. Peacock, which ap-
peared in the Leader March 22. I
do not intend to take serious issue
with her, or to attempt change her
erroneous opinion she holds of cer-
tain literature. My struggle is with
the great mass of people who must
be advanced by reading books.
Relative to Dell, Don Passos. An-
derson. Ben Hecht and their eontri-
butions to the field of literature, she
states: "The books are not salaci-
ous, but they are trashy and have no
place to go down in literature.
Go back a few years and read the
criticisms of librarians, editors and
other subservient servants of despot-
ism and you'll find the same state-
ments relative to Wild. Shaw. Gorky,
London. Ibsen, Hauptman and others.
appearing from time to time. But
who lives in the minds of men, these 4 FKOM IHM.ONVAI.K, OHIO. purpose of destroying the Oklahoma
authors or their critics" j The following resolution was Leader, and
Herbert Spencer said: "There is adopted, by unanimous vote at one Whereas, those would be repre-
one principle that shall hold mankind 0f the largest mass meetings of min- sentatives of coal miners loval
In everlasting mental slavery, and erg ever held in this city. trade, unionists of Dlatrtct SI, whu
that principle is condemnation befoie WHEREAS: We feel it our duty took Irn thousand dollars worlh of
investigation. And investigation does . (0 tjle loyal miners of Kansas (o see stock in the Oklahoma header men
not mean playing to the gallery in that thev vn tin same meisure of nr «h u*m .
, , ... . ... ^,lr. .mat iney *.et me same measure oi of-the Wilkinson type would attempt
th^ Lonei who Justlcc ,bal w0 would "P01"' for our to P'acc the l.eadn in the hands of
the table of tho money god, who Belves r,,e]i wp d ,hat ,hn * d
have the bread and wine. | , \iin« r« nf Knn« R in thptr LC,ve,i>'
•lust compare Floyd Dell and Sin fight against the Industrial Court , w*>ercas' ,ne Oklahoma Leader
clair Lewis, contemporaries, or their . * nfr ... i^ nnt nniv fo,,sht against the Kansas Industrial
offerings. "Main Street" and "Moon b"wV TS ! L'ourt li,w ".! stood b) Alex. Ho.at
Calf," and you will find in both the i [or le ""f1 WorkeISl lmJ! in his light when Howat had Court
portrayal of small town psychology «hp 1whola Labor movement of Uw, ,.CW1S wnklnson and hencli-
struck a new chord in literature. cou ** men fighting him. We the members
Dell stayed with fact, and truth i THKREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: ; ;ind officers of Local L'nion No. 1S27
That we the miners of this vicinity, hj. M. W. of A., are with the Leader
in mass meeting assembled this 20th Und Alex Howat because Howat and
day of March, lf>22. do hereby pledge < the Leader arc for justice for I he
our undivided support to the ex- working man against autocracy and
pel led miners of Kansas and their j injustice in the 1. M. W. of A.
ufflcers. Alexander Howat and Aug-! Rcsolved: That eopy ho sent lo
ust Dorrhv, until audi lime as the | John Wilkinson. Pre,, of Disi. 21
and their officers are , lhe oklahoma l.eadr. and (he W ork-
REINbTAT ED with all rights and ers chionicU'
this organization with- i ,
Adopted at. regular meeting of
Local Union No. 1827, U. M. W. of
A., Lexington. Mo.. District No. 2o.
FRANK McGOWA.V Jr.
President.
From the Rank and File
Letters and Resolutions From Miners
Radiators 8"d Fenders
a Specialty
By Expert Mechanics
Work Guaranteed.
Shipments promptly attended to.
Oklahoma Radiator
and Fender Co.
W. E. SWEITZER. Mgr.
202 W. 2nd St. M. 0291
RETAIL TRADE
Condition by Federal Reserve Districts
■ IMPROVING
□ OBCUWHC
Lewis deviated, played to the gods.
Therefore, feast for one, famine for
the other.
Read the "Three Soldiers.'' by Don
Passos and you'll see why Mrs. Pea-
Hudson o7 | cock is correct in saying that it has
been criticized by army officers.
, What do you suppose the money
i and T will ( hangers said of Christ?
r j The thinking element is harassing j pri
™ librarians by demanding books which > out cost to them, and until the inter -
* Big Business says shall not be upon national executive board respect an<l {
~ the shelf. The librarians cannot play , omplv with the international con
the tune by those who pay the piper; stitution of the 1*. M. W. of A., and
therefore, the discord. The thinking that we stand with the Kansas min-
element shall triumph. No need for ,.rs until the damnable Industrial
alarm. Right always triumphs over slave Law is wiped from the statute
wr°ng. j books of the state of Kansas, and
The library is the thinkers' work-
shop and be wants good tools. He
has been content too Iona with play-
ing to the hidden shelf. Why dictate
the policy of a Carnegie library, and
why" Very seldom you'll find a Book
of Talmud in a Christian Sunday
school or a Bible in a synagogue.
! Why?
i The masses and the classes are in
'conflict. Knowledge is the liberator.
I Thought has never wrought havoc in
! any period of society. A knowledge
of life leads to a higher and purer
I civilization. Let us have less censor-
ship and more sense.
Read and "Ye shall know the Truth
and the Truth shall make you free."
CHARLES E. BERGER.
Oklahoma City.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
| That a copy of this resolution b ''
sent to W. M. Green, of the United J
| Mine Workers Journal of America.
Workers Chronicle. Pittsburgh, Kan-
' sas, and Oklahoma Leader, Okla- ^
j hotna City, Oklahoma.
T. J. BLAHOVEC
President.
E. LINHART
Secretary.
FROM LEXINGTON', >10.
' Whereas, John Wilkinson and the
[executive board of District 21, c. \i.
of A., went into court for the
ED ROSEWALL
PAT MeKENNA
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L. T. BRYAN
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King conducts one
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| hundred hatcheries
j ployed. The farm suppli
mens to museums and
jjardens and poisons to
I and medical men.
Texas. W.
of the larci
world, with
constantly e
comets
fur-
J ther state that it is possible for these
germs to travel to earth from other
worlds on the tails of comets.
Following the accidental loss o
- spi'r' < \ j • i. 11 hundred workinuinen'--* ln^
>ological the German labor unions arc a^ltat
chemists j ing for measure® which will insur
I greater bafrty.*o Workers.
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MINE STRIKE
Covered By Special Correspondents
All important miners' strike news will
be covered by the Oklahoma Leader,
through the co-operation of the Federated
Press.
Art Shields, who repoi-ted the activities
of the union women in Kansas, will cover
the Pennsylvania coal fields.
Carrol Binder will cover the Illinois
field. In addition to Mr. Binder's reports
the Leader will receive news from its own
bureau at Springfield.
Godfrey, one of the Federated Press's
best men is held ready to mo to any point
where special news may be secured.
Todd is at Washington, D. watching'
the government end of the strike.
Miners desiring the Oklahoma Leader
with correct news of the miners' side, need
not pay for their subscription at this time.
Simply till out the following and mail to
the Leader, promising to pay your sub-
scription after the strike.
OKLAHOMA LEADER,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
mm
il'te
Enter me on your subscription lor the period of the
ers' strike. I promise to pay lor the subscription
r the strike has been settled.
St., RFD. or Box
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