Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-25
4 NiournruI View

1t is said that knOcker gets a
credit for being wise whi5c the Op-
timist is usually regarded as fool,
but in the oil business ynd In this
time Of war tho worst seldom hap
pens and the man who predicts evil
unually has been obliged To regret it,
that Is 10 say II anyone pays enough
attention to his prophecies TO even
mention them after they have blown
up.
A recent series OF articles in an
Oklahoma Ciy paper has been pre-
dieting that the government would
take Immediate charge of the oil
business and that the first TO catch
1t would be the independent refiner
and now comes the dope that puts
that talk in the discard hut makes
It plain that the oil producer and
not the rcfiner Is being hurt. -Mrs
Requa has settled that by the above
letter. Mr.. Rcqua might not write
letter like this were he 10 come
to Tulsa and take a trip over ia
field as one day would show him
the wide diversity of interests and
owners of wells and the tremendous
activity that is going on all In the
interest of providing an adequate
supply Of oil.
1t would be a nice thing II the
editor of the Petroleum News, who
has also taken another opportunity
to show his lovely disposition and
has predicted that the government
is going to be running the oil bust
ness shortly and the devil 10 pay
generally.
1t would he well for Mr.. Pratt,
tho pHttnr 81 i1 rFayifna IN 20
plain who inspired this article. Was
it inspired by the same man who in
spired him to publish long TRADE
only n few short years ago against
building refineries in the middle
west? He should look the refineries
located in Tulsa over for day and
then reproduce his article written
by his erstwhle correspondent here,
the renowned Bill Long, and then
say that the producer OF oil should
not sell to anyone but the Standard.
He might quote Glen Braden agais,
as ne did then, and he would find
that Mr.. Braden is hustling for all
the premiums he can get, like other
people. The chances are tho Stand
ard would repudiatc Mr.. Pratts ar
ticle, teeming with suggestions as
it does, just as 1t repudiates the man
who writes for the Daily Oklahoman.
1t is mighty bad time to sug-
gest anything except to get out and
hustle and keep things going al top
speed. Tulsa Is donating $500, 900
to the ked Cross as free as the
flowers in May and II her people
paid any attention whatever to these
croakers, there would be a shutting
down OF every industry and every
building now under way not only
here but throughout the mid-con-
tinent filed.
The industry is a big one and the
independent oil producer in the mid
continent field is doing his level best
to help win the war against mopop-
oily and tyranny and for a free
world. His efforts should be lauded
and he should be encouraged to the
limit.
The refiners are absolutely work
ing to the limit producing the most
needed of all products, fuel oil, and
are selling gasoline, which has be-
come. on account of this wars
necessities, a by-product at less than
it's real value--much less than it
should be selling, taking the price Of
every other commodity into consid-
Grafton. He, too, is entitled 70 the
utmost the encouragement, and con
gratulations because hpis the most
loyal citizen of them all.