Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-17
Potash and Perlmutter sony Daylight

let th,u don little something to earn
their waL,u M1Wruss,'
'buur worry about them fellers
not earning their wages Abe. Nor
ris HtlI Leg sirtors ia like actors,
90 long o.. they got their names In
the papers they don't care how hard
they work. which " you was 10 al
low tucm inllrIs to regulate the
hours ~ daylight hy legislation, Abe.
40 as 20 encourage lazy people 10 get
w earlier. Abe the first thing you
know. go as Co encourage aviators
TO fiy higher they would he passing
am act -uspculuE the laws OF Trav-
ity when We need them, but what il
the use going round with "A long
face before We actually have some
thing tu puIl long face over. Am
I night ur wrong, M1wruss1
Toll me. Abe" Morris asked,
what do you think the laws Of
gravity Is anyhow 80 sunday base
ball or something e."
We'll. amt it'.' Abe demanded
$50 that's your idea of the law OF
Bpyiiy2' Morris exclaimed.
Say a hr roturtcd When | got
o partner which is "A combination OF
John g. Sauchr,h. Judge Brandeis
ana The fDllor what wrote Hanaf-
teach should worry it | don't know
every law iu the law books, 80 20
ahead, Mlwruss. I'm listening What
is the laws OF gravity2'
''rho laws OF gravity is this"
Morris explained 'lt YOU would
throw a bah up IN the air. why does
II come down.
Because / cquldnt perform mir
sclrs exactly" replied promptly.
Neither could the legislature and
also President wilson" Morris said,
because even though you would nm
derstaud the laws OF gravity. which
you don't tho baseball como down
according tG the laws ~ gravity, and
even though Mr. Wilson does under
stand tho laws OF supply and de-
mnnd, understand. il ho gets busy
ana sets low price on coal, pota
toes, wheat or any thing else that
people ~ working To produce for a
living and not for the exercise there
Is in tt, understand, such people
would leave Off producing Il and so
into some other line Whcre tho
prices amt regulated" They would
be suckers II they didn't Abe sMRi
mcnted WA
And tho consequences would be
that sooner or later, on account OF
such low prices. y y'undcrstnnd. every
hody would have the price, but no
hody would have the coal" Morris
said, and that iEewhat Is called the
law of supply and demand II amt
law which was passed by any leg
lsiature, Abr It's a law which made
itself, Ike the law that n YOU eat
too DnuFh
and " YOU spend too much. yuull
50 broke, and you couldn't sidestcp
any OF them self made laws hy con-
sulting those high grade crooks
which used to specialize In getting
million dollar fees out NJ finding
loop holes in the Interstate Com
merce Law and the Antitrust laws.
because there's no lOupholes In the
law OF supply and demand"
Might there amt no lOophnles in
the law OF skppy and demand. may
ne Nho snid$lIut when Mr.. Wilson
gave the order t0-fis coal admins
traitor TO lawcr the price OF coal It's
my nee thlt he was trying 10
punch few loopholes IN the law
or The Public he Damned which
while II was never passed hy no leg.
islature, MawrusS. It amt self made
neither N'understand. but was made
hy the producer 10 do away with this
mere law of gravity. because under
the law OF The Public Re Damned
prices goes up ana they never come
down, but they keep on going nm
ANA up according TO that other law
the law OF the Sky's the Limit. which
no doubt a big philosopher like YOU
Mawruss. has heard about already"
~ the company OF ignCram-
uses Abe" Morris said. "a rellpr
could easy vet a reputation for be-
inS big philosopher. and not know
such an awful lot AZ That"
give you right, Mawrusa" Abe
agreed heartily hut even admitting
.hht YOU don't know an awful lot
Mawrnss. there's something In what
YOU Nay'ahout this here law Of sup
ply and demand
Well now that you endorse n.
Abe, that makes Il anyhow an argu- |
ment,' Morris commented
'But Il looks 10 me like one Of
them arguments that Ia pulled by the
supply end to put something over on /
ihe demand and" Abe continued |
because President Wilson knows |
JUST 80 much about the law OF sun |
ply ana demand as the coal operators
uurN. Mh"JuSS. ana when he fixed ,
NE price ~ coal. you could bet your
iit", Mawruss, he made II an even !
nreak Tor the supply people as well |
as Tor tho demand people"
., Nnd what has all this got TO do /
WIN setting the clock ahead ono
hour In summer Abe which was
Wnat YOU was taking about IN tho /
irst place H' Mprrks.t H,,,.rt.t
Nothing eNcept thar se,,t,g ,bo
CLOCK ahead SO as To save bills Tor
gas and electric light and limiting
'he price or coal so as tho pubIlc
couldn't he Rouged by the coal opera-
tors, so far na | could see. is two dead
open and shut propositions Nav. /
u9"' Abe said which OF course. / /
~" 'N'i m an ignorant man and
don't know no more than "a n,Iire
court lawyer. understand. hut MI
the same time, MAwruHs must vct