Aug. 3, 1922

EDITOR’S NOTES

Now for a John Fields club in Henryetta. Let it be a Fields club, too. Let us not figure that it is a Republican club, because a very large number of Democrats may wish to join it. They do not desire to quit the Democratic Party or become Republicans, but merely wish to support John Fields as a patriotic duty to their state. Let us make it easy for them to associate themselves with us for the time being, and for the single purpose of rescuing Oklahoma from the strangle hold of the bunch represented by the Walton candidacy. It must be borne in mind that a large majority will vote for Walton in November, and this strength must be met with the finest elements in the Democratic ranks. With these thoughts in mind we should make the pathway easy and pleasant for Democrats. And let us not shout out that they have become Republicans, that is their business. Naturally we should be overjoyed to have them, but let that remain optional with them. What we want now is a Fields Club that will make people open their eyes. Mr., C. C. Wilson, as vice chairman, should call a meeting for this purpose, at such time and place as he deems best, and we want to see the club roll long and shining with the names of the best people and entirely without regard for political alignment.

The Oklahoman has little choice in its support of Fields. That great organ has done nobly in opposing the movement to turn the democracy of Oklahoma over to Townlyism, and now that the thing is done, that paper cannot logically support the Democratic ticket with Walton at the head. We shall fully expect to see the Oklahoman in the Fields camp. That will add strength to the paper as always. It will prove their devotion to true democracy rather than to partisan alignment that means ruin to the state. Let no one believe that such a step will be desertion of the Democratic Party. It will make that paper better and abler exponent of true democracy in the future. If indeed we have a future as a state. That depends on defeating Walton in November. The cave-man fought his enemies with a club,

The cave-man fought his enemies with a club, and he did not differentiate with any degree of fine discrimination between motives for any attack made on him he merely defended himself and his women with what strength and prowess he possessed. That is the condition now in Oklahoma. The citizen who values the land marks of our representative government must employ whatever means may be at his command in order to repel the attack of the Non-Partisan League on the state. A drop of thirty degrees in temperature last night

A drop of thirty degrees in temperature last night brought a welcome relief from the torrid days and nights of the past week. Rain fell only as a sprinkle, but really there is no need for rain at this time. Cotton is greatly benefited by the fierce, hot dry days of the latter part of July. It needs no rain, and the corn is already made. Thus the weather is playing in our favor.

COMPLAINT MADE OF BOYS STEALING BALLS

Dr. W. C. Sanderson, president of the Henryetta Baseball club, complained to Mayor Hawes this morning that a number of boys are making a practice of hanging about the ball park and whenever a ball is knocked over the fence they grab it and run away with it. He said a number of new balls have been lost in this way. Ordinarily, a boy will get a ball outside and make of it a “pass” to get into the grounds, but in this case he said they are getting away with the balls. He was of the opinion that the arrest of a few of the boys would stop the practice.

Mayor Hawes said some of them had been arranged at different times and nobody appearing to prosecute, they had been turned loose. Dr. Sanderson said he would appear against them and the Mayor told him he would have an officer there to watch them.

Aug. 4, 1922

EDITOR’S NOTES

Judge Wright, of Sapulpa, is out in a very bitter letter in which he forgets caution and that other cardinal virtue, moderation. He declares that to kill Ku Klux will be justifiable in his court. This is going farther than a judicial officer has any right to go, and no man accused of a crime may need to be tried in a court over which such a man presides. In fact the publication of such sentiments should precede the judge’s resignation. Whether the clan brought about his political defeat or not, he has no right to express such sentiments; such council from such a source reminds one of the sentiments set forth by Shakespeare in this: “’Tis the curse of kings to be attended by those who take the winking of authority as a warrant to break within the bloody house of life.” It is too easy for men to take Judge Wrights statement as a warrant to “break within the bloody house of life.” It is true that Fred Branson won the Democratic nomination, and it may be that he enjoys the favorable consideration of the clan. But, at that, Judge Wright is very intemperate and dangerous in his excoriation.

After four months of a coal strike Henryetta finds itself on solid business ground. This is surprising when we consider that coal is king here, and always has been. In earlier years a four months strike would have completely tied up the towns business; but now there are so many and divers angles to industry that the city is able to move along in the face of all that shortage of payroll money. This proves that Henryetta has made remarkable progress. It proves farther that when this payroll of seventy five thousand to a hundred thousand dollars a week be restored here, business will move at such a pace as to make one fairly giddy. The oil field work is at a low ebb, but that is temporary, too. By the time we get Main street paved out to the shale road, and the autumn days to come, we can scarcely keep out of each other’s way in this town.

The concrete pouring on the paved road from Henryetta to Okmulgee is proceeding steadily. The topdressing cannot be applied until the concrete has had a specific time in which to “set,” and the last coating must therefore begin some two weeks later. The rate of speed at which this is being done seems to assure us of a finished road as far as Schulter by October. It is not clear how much time may be required to complete the road into Okmulgee, because the grade across the Deep Fork valley has not as yet been completed, and when done must have some months in which to settle before the hard surface may be put on. But, some time, we shall have a most excellent highway between these two towns Henryetta and Okmulgee.

DIVORCE CASES FILED

Two divorce cases have been filed in the superior court. William W. Hicks filed suit against his wife, Alta B. Hicks, alleging in his petition that they were married March 29, 1920 at Pawhuska, and that on May 20, 1922 at Spelter City, she was guilty of acts which constitute grounds for divorce.

Blanche Jones filed suit against her husband, W. L. Jones and alleges in her petition that they were married at Okmulgee July 2, 1917, and on July 20 and 21, 1922 the defendant struck her with his fists bruising her flesh until it turned black and then kicked her. She asks for a division of their property, $25 per month alimony and $50 as attorney fees. She also asks that he be restrained from disposing of their property until the termination of this suit, and that he also be enjoined from disturbing her.

IF YOU USE PERFUMES KEEP AWAY FROM BEES

By Associated Press. NEW YORK - Ever since a bee census was ordered in Goshen, N.Y. metropolis of the buzzing honey makers, tender hearted persons have been shuddering at the thought of the danger assessors might undergo in plucking each bee from its work-room or den and counting it. But they might as well stop worrying for W.E. Thorndyke, who knows bees from stem to dread stern, said today that all the census takers have to do is count the hives.

“Even if they did have to number each bee, it wouldn’t be bad.” He said, “Some men could count them one by one never have to use a mask. Of course a lot would depend on whether the bees were aristocratic blue bloods, or hybrids. The hybrids are usually the fierce ones. Still. When it comes to getting intimate with bees, discretion is the better part of valor.”

Girls with perfume and men who use hair oil, smelly pomades or scented talcum better get out of the way whenever they see a bee coming, Mr. Thorndyke says. He has a theory that the little honey-makers just naturally dislike certain odors. When a bee likes an odor it noses right in to gather raw material for its manufacturing plant, but it turns its back on disagreeable smells. And when a bee turns its back, somebody is liable to experience discomfiture. Bees have domestic troubles, too, and these often

Bees have domestic troubles, too, and these often put them in a bad humor. It is to ascertain how many of the baby bees at Goshen are suffering from “foul Brood” and causing worry to their queen and their papa bees that the census was ordered.

Foul brood is something like summer complaint among human infants but devastating. It comes for impure food given during the period of incubation.

The adult bees are not bothered by the disease, as they thrive whether the larder contains good food or bad. But when the queen bee gets sick, then the physical strain of weakness ultimately affects the whole hive.

A SON’S PRAYER

“For the body you gave me, the bones and sinew, the heart and brains that are yours, my mother, I thank you! I thank you for the light in my eyes, the blood in my veins, for my speech, for my life, for my being, all that I am is from you that bore me; for the love you gave me, unmeasured from the beginning, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for the hand that led me, the lap that rested me. All that I am is by you who nursed me; for your smiles in the morning and your kisses at night, my mother. I thank you! I thank you for the tears you have shed over me, for your vigils and ministering. All that I am is from you who reared me. For the faith that you had in me, the hope you had in me, for your trust and your pride, my mother, I thank you! I thank you for your praise and your chiding, for the justice you bred into me, and the honor you had, my mother; all that I am you taught me. For the travail that I caused you, for the visions and despairs, my mother, forgive me. Forgive me the peril I brought you to, the sobs and moans that I wrung from you and the strength I took from you mother, forgive me! For the fear that I gave you, for the alarms and dreads, my mother, forgive me! Forgive me the joy of which I deprived you, the toils I made for you, for the hours, the days and the years I claimed from you, mother, forgive me! For the times that I hurt you, the times I had no smiles for you, the caress that I did not give you, my mother, forgive me! For your lessons, I did not learn, for your wishes I did not heed, for the counsel I did not obey, my mother, forgive me! Forgive me my neglect, my selfishness, all the great debts of love I did not pay, sweet mother, forgive me! And may the peace and joy that passes all understanding be yours, my mother, forever and ever! Good night, mother, good night!” - AUTHOR UNKNOWN

SAYS WORLD’S FUTURE IS NONE TOO SECURE

By Associated Press. LONDON - Sir Rider Haggard is of the opinion that western civilization is by no means so secure as many Westerners believe.

“We have an idea that the West is going on forever,” he said, lecturing before the Norwich Rotary club “but can we be quite sure of that? Those who have studied and know the East; its enormous power of reproduction; its simple habits of life on the land, and its system of moralities which make every woman think it her duty to have children, know that it contains an enormous potential power which must one day break out.

“Whether it can be curbed I do not know, but I have grave doubts. I shall never forget my friend, Theo. Roosevelt, saying when talking of Japan, ‘Look out for Australia; it will be the first place to go.’

“If once Japan secures the control of China the outlook for the Western World will be very cloudy.”

The speaker said he thought our existing civilizations in the end probably would go the way of other civilizations that proceeded it. “Who would have thought a dozen years ago,” he asked, “that there would be such horrors in the world as we have recently seen in Russia. Even in Ireland it has been revealed that the savage is uncommonly near the skirt of civilized man, and so always it will be.”

TO BUILD GOOD ZEPPELIN

BERLIN. Facing the fact that memories of the R-38 and Roma disasters still are freshly in mind throughout the world, German builders of the new Zeppelin intended for commercial use in the United States are prepared to exhaust every resource at their command in producing the “last word” in aircraft. The Zeppelin company stands ready to “stake its reputation” on the project, according to an American official who has figured prominently in negotiations for the contract recently signed here.

GUARDSMEN FIRED UPON

First hostilities with the taking over of mines by the states, occurred today when national guardsmen on guard duty were fired upon from ambush.

The fire was returned by the guards and later the firing was taken up over the entire area. Automatic rifles were brought into action by the troops and firing continued for more than an hour.

Reports received by Major General Robert Tyndall, in command of the troops said that no one was injured. It was said, however, by some of the men on duty that one man was slightly injured.

Officers in command of the troops belittled the affair saying it was a minor skirmish. The situation was regarded as quiet, despite the firing which began shortly after midnight and continued until day break.