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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-20

content with a shorter sighetd poll
oy of paying the lowest price possi
Bile and Of letting the future supply
take care Of itself
For all this, il is probable that the
value of Okohoma's 1913 gas pro
duction win equal that OF West Vir-
ginla, which in the year 1917 pro-
dueed 40 per cont Oft he nations
total supply. s.
The Tulsa district still holds it's
leadership in the oil production Of
the state. It's average daily produc-
tion in 1918 was 6G,O00 barrels. The
Blaclwell-Garber district had an av-
erage daily production of 24,29S bar
rels. The Okmulgee district was
second highest with 5S,O46 barrels.
The Healdton produced 39O54 bar
rels each day; the Bartlesville dis.
trict, 10000 barrels; the Muskogei
district, 9,317 barrels and the Cotton
county district 5000 barrels. The
Cotton county district is now making
rapid gains,
The BlackwelIGarber district is
still far in the lead in the production
of natural gas. More than 27,OO0,-
100000 cubic feet was taken from
the field in 1918. Healdton, which
includes the famous Fox gas field,
came second in 1918 gas production
with a total amount of twelve bill
lion cubic feet taken from the ground
and supplied chiefly to the cities Of
northern Texas. The Okmulgee dis
trict supplied eleven and a half bill
poses; gas fields in the region Of
Tulsa supplied 64200O,00O cubic feet;
and the Bartlesyille district, includ-
ng what was few years age, the
most prolific gas field in Oklahoma,
leolined to a total production of on
y 887341,OO cubic feet for the en-
ire year. The Mushogee district
reduced slightly more than a bill
ion cubic feet and Cotton county
3S,000,000 A large part of this
outhwest Oklahoma natural gas Is
ow being piped also into Texas
tiles.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-20
Corporation Commission Makes
Report on Oil and Gas Pro-
duction in 1918
SAVE HUGE SUM IN GAS
Oklahoma Conservation Work
Leads Nation; 23,561 Produc-
ing Wells in State.

Oklahoma City March 19.-The
state of Oklahoma produced 2O4,65O
barrels of oil each day during the
year 1918. 1t produced for CONNER
cial purposes, 53,377645,5G1 cubic
feet of natural gas, and in addition
to this, through the efforts of the
corporation commission, a total Of
32,7SO,536,OOO cubic feet of natural
gas was 'mudded in" conserved for
future use Of the state These fig
ures were made public today by the
oil and gas conservation division of
the state commission.
These are declared to be the first
totals in oil and gas production an
nounced from any state for the year
1918. It is not yet known just
where Oklahoma stands in the nation
in oil and gas production for the past
year, but it is probable that this
years gas production viii equal that
of West Virginia, which for the past /
several years has been the first gas /
producing state in America. The I
figures were compiled through the
seven men which the commission has
constantly in the field aiding in and
insisting upon conservation work in
the production of both oil and gas.
No account is taken of the Usage
Nation in the report made
23,56t Wells in State.
At the present time there are 90
561 wells in the state of Oklahoma
producing oil or gas Estimated up
on the present price, the daily value
of Oklahoma's oil is more than half
million dollars. The value Of the en-
tire production for the year 1918 is
estimated at $1S6,471125.
Tt is difficult to estimate the value
of the natural gas because Of the
large range Of prices paid. Many
cities in Oklahoma insist upon Oh
tanning their gas supply at just as
'CN ~ lettC 90 ttiAs Oiit w III ltl AlGn
hem reasonably good present sup
ply for. At the same time Ft Worth
md Dallas and Kansas City and the
,ities of western Arkansas and of
Kansas and Missouri. are
Wiling to pay a good premium in or
Ter to provide not only an adequate
resent supply, but also a supply suf-
icient that they win still have rea-
onably priced natural gas in years
0 come when the present resources
ave become greatly depleted At
ne present time Ft. Worth and Dal-
Is are paying so cents and GO cents
er 1000 cubic feet for Oklahoma
as Kansas City is paying 80
ents and other cities Of Kansas and 3
issouri are paying rates ranging be-
veen. The companies supplying
lese cities are obtaining control Of
e most stable supply in the state -
hile the cities of Oklahoma are
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-20
in wild cat operations.
100000 Spent Saves Millions.


100000 Spent Saves Millions.
One Of the outstanding TEXTURES OF
the commissions report is the rec
ord of conservation work of its oil
and gas division. with q total ap-
preparation Of 100000, the states
agents conserved for future use gas
valued at $995.l74SS. Not only
would a large part Of this gas have
been wasted had it not been for the
work Of the conservation division but
the damage resulting from improper
care of these wells would have re-
suited also il vast additional de-
struction Of gas sands from which
the future supply will be taken. This
is true because Of the fact that if
salt water is permitted to enter gas
sand in only one well, the result is
probable ruin for many other wells
in the field.
Oklahoma Leads Nation.
Oldahoma's conservation plan is
now being copied in whole or in part
by fourteen other states in the un-
ion. DR.. Samuel s. Wyre, chief con-
servation officer Of the federal fuel
administration, recently stated that
Oklahoma had done more in oil and
gas conservation work than all the
other states combined. The Oklaho-
ma plan was organized by Art L.
Walker, first chief of the oil and gas
liyision, and now corporation COM
missioner.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-20

more activity throughout the state
than there has ever been before
New fields may increase production,
but the present ones, especially the
gas fields whose average life is three
years, are being depleted rapidly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-20

Latest styles in tailoring can be
seen at the Chlckasha Cleaning
Works, phone sos. 5-3t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-20
SEVERE TEST SHOWS
HOW TO SAVE SHOES

"A molder in our foundry wore a
pair Of shoes with Ne0lin Soles every
day for ten months and two weeks
both IN the foundry, and to and from
his work-and they are Just worn out"
The Sessions Foundry Company of
Bristol, Connecticut, makes this report
on pair of Ne5lin-soled molders'
shoes given them for test.
Ne0lin Soles have none Of the short
comings of other soles. They do not
burn or crack under conditions such
as these-nor do they wear out quickly
under the grind Of abrasive materials.
They are made by Science to be es-
pecially tough and durable, will stand
the roughest kind of usage and so
wear longer and save money. More
over. they are comfortable and water
proof. ..,s..- s. &C.,. 49,, ~
You can get them on new shoes in
many styles for men, women and chill
dren-or as re-soles. They are manu-
featured by The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, who also
make Wingfoot Heels-guaranteed To
outWear all other heels.
1le0lil2 I...= 4. i j ! !. !S'o1ess !:
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
An Innperishable Individualisn,

humor Editors of magazines and news
papers order people to be FUNNY. News
paper writer's sign ten-year contracts to be
funny six days a week in a stipulated ouan
tity. We had a city editor once who made
a practice of putting a 4OO-word funny
STORY on the front page in every issue. He
made up the suggestions himself, and we
remember our assignment as entered in the
book one July day several years ago, "As |
was coming down Broadway to-day | saw
cake of ice in the middle of the street.
Write funny story about it."
Our magazine writers are just as bur
dened as the newspapermen. There is
hardly first class writing man in America
who does not twist and change the things
he sees just little to make them funnier.
Even burlesque itself is not enough Ring
Lardner achieves success by mingling
accurate observation of colloqual speech
with a slight touch of exaggeration, and
Immediately he is successfully followed by
score of men whose only trick seems to be
to make two "him and mes" grow where
one grew before. The best of the English
don't go scot free, either. Bernard Shaw
plays the fool at times in order to induce
people to listen to discussions of such Sc
rious subjects religion and economics
and sociology. H. G. Wells inserts snatches
OF heavy handed burlesque into some of his
most brilliant books. But Galsworthy goes
along without patronizing his readers by
assuming that they must have everything
made funny. Perhaps life is not as hu-
mQrous as it ought to be, but Galsworthy
seems content to let other men paint the
pink spots on the false faces and add the
putty to the nose of mankind
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
The True Romance

There are romanticists Of politics as
of literature; and there are, at the other
extreme, materialists. In between there
are, or there should be, realists, with,
on the ono hand, sense Of fact that
prevents wish-thinking and doctri-
naire's idealism; and, on the other, an
imagination that realizes how vast is
the still remaining mystery of life and
how urgently we need faith and hope
and instinct for our insoluble task.
Somewhere on this middle ground
stands Joseph Conrad, the greatest liv-
ing writer of English. His novels are
sheer romance if you will; yet always
truth, essential truth, is their organiz-
ing structure, their source, their pur-
pose. There is, therefore, peculiar in
terest in his view of Poland, his native
land, which we reprint from "Collier's"
on this page. There is intense national
partisanship in his argument, as was to
be expected. But the world has grown
weary of neutrals. We have come to
perceive that only through partisanship,
dered. The Tribune is seeking to do its
share toward expounding the strange
romance, the mystery, that is Poland.
We have given in Mr.. Tobenkins arti-
cles the criticisms of an eyewitness. We
give Mr.. Conrad's philosophical inter-
probation as most valuable clew, map
of strange territory drawn as if from
great height.
The immediate and passing facts,
subject of much charge and counter
charge, are Of small moment in such
picture. An incurably romantic view,
some may say of Mr.. Conrad's whole
philosophy Of the war. Yet he does not
ignore these passing events in favor of
sheer theory, the artiice of mind. He
passes them by only because beyond
them and above them are lasting, i'm
mutable facts which must i. the end
control. Hence he is the true realist, it
can be said. Those facts are the facts
of national character, which Mr.. Con-
rad, profound student of human nature,
sees as the one stable, certain element
in shifting world. Dynasties and de-
mocracies come and go, wars begin and
end, groups improve and decline, new
creeds and phrases pass upon mems lips.
England is still England, France is
France, America Amerca-and Poland
was and will be again Poland, offspring
of the West set down amid the camps of
the enemy.
There is no easy optimism about Mr..
Conrad's hopes of his Poland. Fatal
istic is the word that comes to mind.
Perhaps all of Mr.. Conrad's writing is
touched with a family Eastern sense of
a fate that inevitably must be. But it
is fatalsm welcome beyond rrice in an
hour flushed with false claims and car
ing nothing for fact so long as the
phrase be fine.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
Drinksof Other DAYS
(F'rom The Boston Post)

There is a popular belief that the people
VINO lived more than a century ago knew
little about variety of drinks. They could
have wine, beer, brandy or rum, but little
else. But it does not take much delving
into old annals to find out that the Ameri-
cans of the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
utres had almost endless variety of
choice. The frequenters of the old Dutch
tavern, one of the earliest buildings in what
is to-day New York, had all sorts of mixed
drinks, even if they did not know what a
cocktail was.
Some idea Of the kinds OF liquor sold is
given in the eighteenth century advertise
ment Of distiller, who set forth that he
could supply "Anseed Water, Orange Wa
ter, Glove Water, All Fours, or the Cordial
of Cordials, Royal Usquebaugh, Plain ditto,
Royal Water, Cordial of Health, Cinnamon
Water, Cardamon Water. Angelica Water.
Aqua Calestic or Heavenly Water, Ros
Soils. Stoughtons Elixir Mrabelis, or Won
derful Water, besides Irish Whiskey.
Brandy and Rectiied Spirits of Wine"
At funerals all sorts of liquors were
served. Finally, largely because the intoxi-
cation of mourncrs appeared unseemly, the
custom was abandoned. This innovation
was greatly deplored by some resolute
topers, and one of them remarked bitterly
that Temperance has done for funerals"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
The Man Martens

The Neac York. Call, which seems to
have abandoned the Socialist field to
become Bolshevist, seeks to break the
force of the Penal Codes definition of
criminal anarchy by saying "Ambassa-
dor" Martens has not advocated the
overthrow of our government by force,
violence or assassination.
In Russia Lenine and Trotzky. Mar
tens's principals, have not only advo-
Gated overthrow of government by
force, violence and assassination, but
have practised the doctrine They did
not overthrow Czarism (Lenine was safe
in Switzerland and Trotzky safe in New
York when this occurred), but they over
threw by force the Kerensky government.
This had title from the Duma, Russia's
only elective body, and as the constituent
assembly, freely chosen by adult suffrage,
was about to assemble Kerensky was
Socialist, as were his comrades. Some
fled for their lives and others, unable to
escape, were killed by Lenine's orders.
He proclaimed general terror and
turned machine guns loose on all who
dared oppose him. Many thousands were
slaughtered. No one raises a voice in
Russia unless he consents.
Not satisfied with his achievements in
Russia, Lenine summoned criminal anar-
chists everywhere to initiate him. A fiery
cross was sent forth. He spent millions
OF rubles to induce others to do as he
had done. Particularly this country
was to be seized by force. If Martens
does not misrepresent his mission, he is
Lenines agent here, and his very employ
ment implies he holds Lenine's method is
right. Yet The Cau would have it's
readers believe Martens has not advo-
Gated the forcible overthrow of our
democracy.
We don't know whether the man
Martens, among his principles" has de-
veloped an aversion to craftsmanship
1t looks as if he had. Else, an upholder
Of the proposition that the strong have
right to rule as they please, he would
hardly come bleating before our Amer
ican courts, asking the hated law
to protect him. And Dudley Field
Malone, who has taken the oath incident
to membership in the legal profession,
appears as counsel to champion Of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18

the true structure behind. If this is
the covenants character great shift of
opinion is likely to occur. For example,
Senator Knox In his resolution inserted
a paragraph pledging assistance should
civilization again be imperilled. 1t is
to be inferred that Senator Knox wishes
an entente, or something akin to it.
Among those most sharply criticising
the covenant are men who favor loose
alliance whose mere existence will warn
other Germanys to be careful.
The Tribune, although as to some
matters critical Of the covenant, has
steadily supported the alliance idea as
the only peace league promising to In
sure peace, and has devoted itself to
trying to establish relations Of conf
dence with those nations which must be
our partners if peace is in fact to be
maintained,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
A Curious Cuss

(From The Winnebdoo MSmn. Enterprise,
"Our ancient and honorable friend Frank
A. Day of 1.-The Fairmount Sentinel" is hav-
ing a whaling lot of fun out of the political
situation. Count that day lost that sees no
new candidate for Congress or the Governor
ship put forth by the Hon. Frank. Up to
the present time he has named enough men
to provide brand new set of officials for the
whole state. Frank is a curious cuss HE
has boxed the political compass, and is still
running around in circle, emitting strange
cries And in spite of the fact that his po-
litical faults are numerous, we love him stu
and the more still he is the more we love
him!
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
Facade to an Alliance

Just about the time public opinion
quiets on the assumption that the mys-
terry Of the Paris negotiations is all ex-
posed and removed, along comes a
strange stirring behind the curtain.
Testifying before the Senate Military
Committee on Monday, General March,
chief of staff, said Great Britain and
the United States have an understand
ing that each shall maintain mill
tary strength four times larger than
before the war. The British quota will
be 1000 and ours about 100000 The
several stats would consult, and the
combined forces, plus the contributions
Of other nations, would suffice, the gen.
eral thought, to meet the joint oblga-
tons under the covenant
The arrangements read like an
entente alliance on the model of the un-
derstanding which subsisted between
Great Britain and France. In his letter
Of November %, 1912, which gives the
clearest description of the informal
agreement, Sir Edward Grey said to
Cambon, the French Ambassador:
From time to time in recent years
the French and British naval and mill
tary experts have consulted together. 1t
has always been understood that such
consultation does not restrict the FREQ
dom Of either government to decide at
any future time whether or not to as
sist the other by armed force.
1ou have, however, pointed out that if
either h.J
expect an unprovoked attack by a third
power II might become essential to
know whether it could in that event de-
peho on the armed assistance of the
other. l agree that if either government
nad grave reason to expect an unpro
voked attack by third power, or some
thing that threatened the general peace.
1T should Immediately discuss with the
other whether both governments should
act together to prevent aggression and
70 preserve peace, and, If so, what meas
ures they would be prepared to take in
common"
Two league Of peace possibilities are
present. One, of which the covenant is
an example, seeks an inclusive general
agreement, more or less definitely mark
ing out the scope of common action.
The other, not documented or systema-
tazed, Is an entente among nations whose
main interest is in peace. No real oppo-
sition between the two plans exists. al
though often pictured as antagonistic.
According to General March, the cove
nant is mere screen, with the real
peace~maintaining machinery in other
arrangements in enlarged national
armies to make common cause. the
powers Judging each case as it arises.
II this is what is being actually done
the covenant is merely facade, with
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
Common Christianity
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 lhe EultOr OF The Tribune
Sir: No one who knows the devastated
regions OF France can listen to sectarjan dis.
senslons regarding the work of relief and
restoration without a sense of shock The
boche made no distinction between Catholic
and Protestant. If the name of Christian
means anything. the oblteration of his trail
of beastliness should be hailed as a Christian
opportunity for united Christian effort
In the Chateau Thierry pocket" between
the Marne and the Aisne, there are several
score of the loveliest Romanesoue churches of
the lie de France, the loveliest small churches
OF the world, in varying degrees of ruin.
AT st Pierre de lAige there is but pile
OF stones. 1t was hereabouts that the Amer
leans with General Mangin Jumped on"
the morning of July 49, At Bonnes the
exquisite belfry is still intact, though
great hole yawns in the nave and the interior
is wrecked.
In many of these churches Charlemsgne
may have worshipped Standing in
country where war was perpetual war re.
spected them for a thousand years. II re-
NAMED for the Boche to ruin, loot and befoul
them What he could carry away he stole.
The rest he desecrated as the ape desecrates.
have found pages torn from an illuminated.
hand-wrought seventeenth century psaltcr in
Boche colonel's dugout used as shaving
papers.
American followers of Christ, American
lovers of beautiful things, American lovers
of humanity and of France could do no
more graceful act than to restore these
churches under the direction of French
architects. 1t is project which the smaller
cities of America might we'll undertake, and
In so doing erect a monument each 10 its
own civic life and fame. But it is an enter
prise which obviously should be inaugurated
by the Christian churches of America, united
in common Christianity and in no sectarisn
spirit DAVID GRAY.
Captain. U. S. A. (Discharged).
New York, June IA, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-18
The Wars

''It is not all over yet" says Bonar
Law. No one. has made complete
count, but "'Iwixt the green seas and
the azured vault" as Prospero remarked,
is "set caring war" And, not to ignore
the testimony of Fluellen, the COM
batants have mo more directions in the
true disciplines Of the wars, look you, of
the Roman disciplines, than is puppy
dog"
In far-off Afghanistan turbaned tribes
men hurl themselves against men with
different turbans. In Bohemia Huns Of
the Red variety are making home-stay-
ing Czecho-Slovaks understand what
their kin endured in Siberia. In South
ern Russia Poles and Ukrainians have
a sulphurous canopy every other day.
The White Films are in trenches not
far from Petrograd, and Livonians and
Esthonians are giving the Bolsheviki
some of their own medicine. Over an
S00-mile front Kolchak keeps pecking
away, and in front Of Archangel and
behind the Murmansk coast our men at
last accounts were fighting alongside
the British and French. Bulgaria
threatens another invasion of Serbia,
, China is angry at Japan and little Fiume
has voted $3O,O00,O0O to make herself
ready to fight the whole world should
President Wilson lead it to attack her
liberties. Finally, Mexico-way there is
a smell Of smoke, and burying parties
are disposing of dead Villistas.
If the war correspondents were not
out of breath this would be their busy
year. We talk peace, but large per-
centage of the human family is acting
war. Human nature is not suspended.
The old game has many devotees. The
thought of Paris runs not to putting
fires out, but to preventing their spread
We elect to say little about disagree
able facts, but there they are. Big
wars, declared Othello, made ambition
virtue; but how about the little wars?
They at least prove something to those
who do not allow visions to get in front
OF their vision