Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-02-10

going 10 can Mr. Garfield during the
i've days they will lay OF IS going
10 pretty n.Hr warm mp their cold
homes even II u amt going TOO pro Nidc
food for their families. Mawruss.
Furthermore. Mawruss. five contiuu-
ous days IT, going to give them an op-
purtuniiy To do a lot more real, hard
thinking than they could do II they
would huve--we would say for cN-
ample only one hour day lay-otf,
every other day over period Of a
hundred days, Mawrnss. ana if at the
end OF them five days. Mawruss. they
are going to take ns much interest
In tho problems OF this war az they
are In the problem Of how they are
s"lng To catch up with what they owe
for five days food and rent Mnwruss.
| miss my guess. because Mr. Tafi ana
Professor Iinks may think that them
fcllers is going 10 spend their five
days lock out in looking up war-maps
and sticking little Colored flags In tho
positions now held by the French
and German troops. or in reading up
the life Of General PershinR and my
Three Years In Germany" by Am.
hassador Gerard Mawruss but |
don't"
And vet. Abe. admitting all YOU
say h true, understand. what reas-
on do you got for supposing that be
fore Mr. Garfield shut Off the coal.
he didn't also consider all these
things. when they even occurred to "A
fcllcr like you" Morris asked.
what do you mean feller like
mc'' Abe demanded "Thousands ~
people the country over is saying the
self same thing"
luttN thnY ura NI,rrIr a.tl
Aud why YOU and they should think
that what occurred to thousands ~
people the country over. shouldn't
also occur to MIR, Garfield. Abe, Is be-
yond me, Now | don't know no more
about this coal proposition than YOU
90, Abe. but | am willing 10 take "A
chance that when big man like Gar
field backed up by President Wilson,
does crazy thing IKE this. y'undcr-
stand. he must have an awful good
reason FOR IT, no matter how good the
reasons were against it"
'nid | say he didn't. Abe said
Then why knock the fellcr?" Nor
rls said.
Say. lookyhcre. Mawruss." Abe re.
tortcd, are we living In Germany or
America An idec' on II hours notice
the government shuts Off the coal
Z
prct That all that the CpIhple would
say Is 'Omane, solo" tAmenl Sc
hhD
We'll that's tho way a govern
meut does business short notice
Abe, which n Mr. Garfield would bc
one ~ thcui take -it-on- the other hand
lclicrs who considers the matter from
every angle before he decides. YUMA
p'rStand, white he would have stIIT
got CouIHe OF thousand angles to
consider the matter from Abe. the
country would have been tied mn into
such knots over the coal and FREIGHT
situation that It would have rcuuired
not five days but five hundred days to
unianglc A. yunlcrstand Morris
said
nut It seems TO me, Mnwruss. that
Mr. Garfield could have spent-say
twenty-five minutes longer on that
order OF his so that manufactures
could tell from reading it over a fsSy
dozen times with the assistance OF a
nrst-clusS crnckeriaCk \ No | Grim
maj lawyer lust what Il was lc
rouldu'F do without making himself
Table to fine Df five thousand dol
lars Hud one year Imprisonment, v
understand Abe said In fact.
Mawruss, II the average manufacturer
lN going u Try 20 understand that or
dor before he does anything about IL.
hon have 70 shut down for 1--WE DAYS
while he is working 10 puzzle It out.
and then he viii keep his place closed
down f6r tive days longer while he is
resting up from brain Tag, understand
me Take. for instance. "a department
store which sells liquors ana groceries
has a doctor I'm charge OF the rest
room and runs "a public lunch-ruom In
.hc basement. v understand and ifI
.Nc proprietor decided 90 make "A test
'nsc of II by hiring John r. ,iStauch-
field and keeping open on Monday
Nnwruss, once Mt Garfield got on the
Witness stand and started 10 explain
lust what the exemptions exempted,
understand. Il would be wears and
cars before he ever had a chance to /
,cp tho old college again
hut Mr Garfield wrote that order |
@ save coal not arguments. Abe " |
Norris said He expected that the