The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-19

The Connally letter advises amend.
ing the child labor law, roduci,.
the nine-hour woman cmn,oy,,..'
statute to eight. and To regulat. ,ho
manufacture and sale OF elect.,o.,
appliances.
Scmi-Annual Blown.
The semi-annual hlowup oe IN.
head OF the Pauls Valley trai,,n.
school for boys has occurred T,,,o.
each year the head of that staio q.
stitution is expected to resign by rs.
quest. For a time 1t appeared ,h.,
ID. g. Dumas, Oklahoma CITY. vori.
be allowed to remain at his post fo,
the remainder Of 1920. but mis- r,ste.
nation has been received. mn, q
moment sooner than expected no.
cause 1t had been dem4nded
Charges of extreme cruelty yore,
preferred, investigated, the repor,
not filed, but Dumas must 10, rio IL
| the second for the year 1920 and tha,
viii probably, be all for the calen'
dar year, for the reason his sue.
cessor will not get thoro in time IN
be discharged before the season
/ closes.
The Pauls Valley story Is a bad
one from the beginning. 1t has had
more heads than any of the other
state institutions and presents A
scandal of sort twice at least each
year. Some years have not had thai
many, but others have kept up the
f.,s
stitution from the beginning. al.
| though the intention of society IN
| providing such places IL to make
over those lads who have gone be.
| yond parental control and to redeem
them for good citizens. 4
| When Dumas was appointed Il
was believed the solution had beeS
reached as he had been prominent
| in welfare work in Oklahoma CITY
| and at least was possessed OF
newspaper reputation for doing good
work. The difference between work.
ing with fallen grown-ups and lads
seems to have overwhelmed him, a;
least in so far as getting along with
| his charges, and his principal occu-
| patton since being placed in charge
| there was to recover runaway boys
and then face charges of having
been cruel to them.
Surprising II True.
state capitol building friends Of
Congressman Scott Ferris are max
ing the announcement that he is to
quit the political field permanently,
and Is to be employed by some 81
| yantic corporation at tremendous
| ly large salary, with Offices in Okla.
homa City and New York.
Only week ago emissaries were
abroad TO propagate the idea OF hay'
Ing Senator Elmer Thomas be
| candidate for governor and Mr.. Fer
| ris return to congress from the sixth
district. AS those who are telling OF
| the new resolve are the same people
who started the other effort, It Is very
probable that a change has come
over tho congressman in the past
| few days.
Crumbs From the Masters Table
Internal Revenue Collector Hu-
bert l.. Bolen is in Washington on a
rather sad mission. He Is striving
to secure some kind of an executive
order or ruling whereby his small
| army OF deputies. assistants, etc,
with the accent on the and so forth
may be civil serviced 80 that the re-
tdIl flOl uHlOoctIl
Mr.. Bolen accepts the facts that
his place IL too important and too
much sought after to permit of him
retaining 1t, and will work only for
those under him. Some of those
have been long in the service, and
among them Is Colonel Benjamin
Riley, who for many years was sew
retary of the state election board
being finally legislated out OF office
Since that time he has worked IN
the internal revenue department and
has risn rapidly In rank. The WASH
ington mission, however, is not very
much in Colonel Riiey's behalf, for
the reason that he grew un N
Massac chuset,s, where the rule i$
one job gets gone, grab another.
Weaver slated.
Oklahoma City newspapers nave
been endeavoring to make out case
whereby Postmaster Claude Weaver
may be able to hold on after HARD
ing is president, and some plausipie
arguments are presented.
Weaver "resigned" to run FOR con-
grcss against Senator-clect j. W.
Harreld, and after being defeated,
Postmaster Burleson ascertaihed
Weaver had only taken vacation
Senator Harreld is not vindictlve DuI
he IL human, and likewise kindly'
One of his first efforts will be 10
see IL he can not get Oklahoma
City's postmaster a vacation IONS
enough 10 rest him from the cares
and worries OF the office, at leas.
long enough to regain his slrens'"
say at least four years.
"Many Arc Called But Few y"
Chosen"
Desire for office Is great amohs
Americans and especially alnuns
those who dwell in oklahoma. ino
republicans are just like the dInV
Gratis in that respect, II anythiN
little mofe so at this time for they
have long been estranged from the
official nav wagons.