The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-08

maps, believed me. But I am afraid
the continuous ding -donging of "A
| lot of experts on the subject has
queered the truth.
The definition OF an expert. l
might suggest. Is really "a fellow
| from another city"
l do not blame the geologist ex-
actly II he can MAKE the oil man
think that his future supply of OF.
| " IN "A devil of "a fiX--unlcss he gets
tho geologist5 special advice. rhe
geologist sells mystery and the COM
! ing oil shortage may be a very
good selling talk to him. II is con-
celVable that he is honest in 1t ALL
l nave no quarrel with geology
as a profession. 1t has its place.
| But / don't think geologists ought
TO carry on needless alarm about
an industry that is giving them
their sustenance and their prosper
ity.
Why He Wonders.
| once, 10 years ago perhaps, | be-
lieved that petroleum would be gone
IN 20 years. But since then 1 have
learned about petroleum. have
turned from pessimist to optimist.
| When | was told 10 years ago that
! petroleum would be gone in 20
years, five years ago that petroleum
| would be gone in 20 years, two years
! ago that petroleum would be gone in
20 years and when / am told now
that petroleum will be gone in 20
! years, | begin to wonder.
Maybe / will be told the same
thing 10 years from now.
on men, find. are not particu-
'afly pessimistic, In fact, very re-
Gently, | find the worry has been
about how to get the buyer to buy.
l admit that conditions will change.
| We shall have our oil shortage. We
nave had them We shall have
times Of surplus. We are in the
! middle of one now
We shall always have something
to worry about. But when second
rate colleg professor, piddling his
lie away for u section hand s salary
and Il white collar, goea int the
newspapers with an interview harm
ing 100000, 100000 industry and
alarming u 100000, ,000-person ma
ton, | say we ought to pay our
learned men more upon agreement
that they will keep silence.
n Word to the Wise.
This stuff Is all propaganda In
order to get our American oil men
to go out into foreign fields and
acquire foreign oil lands" an oil
man tells me.
Who goes stalking deer with u
brass band or mice with a snare
drum? If we are going TO bid for
the worlds oil is It good business
to tell all the world about it? l
thought American traders were
slicker than that.
Somebody may be getting kidded,
but I'd like to be surer that ii isn't
tho oil man. | am not seeking the
Job. | am fairly busy where | sit.
But do believe that 1t would be
worth while If the oil industry
cou.d develop some defensive
against lot OF queer stuff that has
been going around.
In February there seeped through
the press a story that oil upon the
ocean, lost from our oil burning
ships, was killing the fish life in
the sea, and that the aquatic birds,
OIL soaked, their feathers petrole-
umized, were starving because they
could neither fly nor dive for food
Amazing, Is 1t not?
/ have faith that the oil fields of
the world are barely scratched. |
think that oil men generally are of
the same opinion. think that there
are vast untouched oil Zelda on
every continent. / think we shall
find them in Africa, Siberia. Aus
tra.ia!
Industry IL stu i'm Its Genesis.
think, when the final story OF
oil is told 1t will be shown that the
oil industry OF today is still in its
genesis. Let us teach the word to
use oil with the feeling in our hearts
that we can get enough oil for it to
use.
! know that the average editor
will grab catastrophe story quick
or than he will CHEEKY one. It
puts tinHle down his spine.
l did not spend 10 years in the
newspaper trade without learning
something SSout people. | think
the newspapers and the magazines
are anxious for the truth. But I
know. from experience, that II Is
mighty hard right now TO ram the
facts about oil past an editors
desk
The average editor Is al messed
up mentally with a lot OF bunk
which proves that the world is
on the blink. Remember, back Just
a few months, how we would never,
never get enough clothing or goods
again?
Remember one year. during the
late war how we were told to save
the "eyes" OF our potatoes and plant
them because we didn't have enough
seed potatoes to raise a crop-and
how the next fall there came
flood OF potatoes!
Remember how we were not to
have enough ships or freight cars
. or coal cars or eggs again In years?