The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-28
Government Control
to End.

The new Secretary Of commerce
and Labor Alexander makes "a su'nB
hit with tho people uf tho United
states when he declared thhi h"-
ginning with tho new year govern
ment control should h' az AN enc.
Tho war has VItiudiy bv'h over
for moro than "A year ana mere -
no further reason for control "l ran
roads of the oil business. Ot lho coal
business - amy uihrt business 'I''u
enterg into ihc lives Of me people
M do the above and above all thHre
IA no need for q contIUuruc" Of stat"
' control OF the OH and gas husln'S 'SS
which has been moro obnoxious l."
the men who produce oil hud kJh
and refine petroleum Than any K~E-
arnmCnt control ever vas during tht
period Of tho war or since.
what would happen were ihrr" To
TO organized corporation to arm
for ana supply gas to the f'l'ii'H
ia Tulsl2 The chances are tho cor
poratlun comm lssion would imm'.
diatcly assume command ana ""ntl
require first a permit to arm an !
then AS soon AZ gas why discover -
would order that It. hry'mudd'd IN
II II was decided to drill deeper
1t would attempt to s,ty mat "nIy
quarter Of the gas could bo uHrh
II II were In "A district where muth
drilling was going on and the HaS
necessarily exceedingly short lIN'H
II would have It's men an tho ground
TO boss things and would hiI'hi"
and harraSs the drillcrH ana nWh'I S
of the we'll until the whole buuch
would feel as though 1t were better
TO throw up the job than take orders
from "A lot OF ignornmuses.
II would only be when therc would
be danger OF someone asking mo
courts to prevent gas being smut on
or something equally aS import
ant that the gas company woulu la'i
back on the corporation commission
and ask for It's protection and re
uulre users OF gas to make the trip
10 Oklahoma CITY for n hearing or
like the case now being appalled, 10
the supreme court. when mo gas
company has failed 10 furnish ghs
TO keep tho people from frccSlns,
and thon OF course tho corporation
comm ission comes In strong Tor me
company instead OF looking out Tor
the people whom they are supposed
TO represent
Tho corporation commission re
fused 10 let the Oklahoma Nhtural
take any gas nt Cement after II hhu
hnllt n line over IltI' pU Nilf hl'h
that IL would ruin the wells to take
any more gas from them.
1t has numbered rather thnn helped
anyone and tho system OF inspecting
gasoline being sold 9i ruling stations
in this state is "A big Joke. The worst
of 1t 10 other states imagine that
Oklahoma. the homo OF tho oil man,
would not submit to rules and ragu-
Ia lions that are not fair. and hence
are copying them In many states
because they have heard no proteat'
There In an easy solution or the
difficulty and that is for some for
eign corporation to ask for an IN
junction In the federal court wth
three Judges sitting on banc. The
law requires. that three Judges hear
a case OF this Kind within 10 days
ind then the evidence can be pre-
sented and the entire law knocked
out.
When a country Judge at Peters
burg, Ind, Just north OF the OAK %
land city field. rendered verdict
against the gas Inspectors OF lndi-
ana the iatter asked the writer not
to publish the vcrdIct saying
There are about rs OF NJ inspectors
who would all be out OF job II