The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-27
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Ban0uet December 6

The Okmuigee District Oil & Gas
association has planned great
mee,ing nj its first annual banquet,
vh.ch will be held at the Hotel Par
Aneon. Okmulgee. on Tuesday eve
nrR December 8. II will be one
meeting at which the Independent
an producer, refinor and marketer
en- depend on being In the presence
w his friends, as It is doubtful 81
pthere will be any present with pipe
line affiliations.
Representatives OF all the inde.
Bsndcnt OIL organizations In the
puthwest viii attend the banquet
and It is planned to bring together
all the producers In seven east cen-
ral oklahoma counties. Every in
dependent oil man who Is able TO at
lend viii be made welcome at the
BANQUET. arrangements for which are
m charge Of a committee made up
Of w. Il. Pine. w. h. WOOD, James
O. Lyons, Geurse 4. Clifford, j. J.
Moroney. l.. II. Poe and Chas. l..
McMahon
It may be that It is good thine
that the date conflicts with the
meeting Of the National Petroleum
institute. which Is to be held in Chit
Ago, beginning December 5, because
an independent oil man of strong
Eronvictions has about as much bust
lysss at the gathering of the monop-
Waists In Chicago, as the Standard
4 man had at the meeting of tho in
dependent marketers held in Chicago
IN October. where they certainly
looked and felt sadly ont OF place
There Is no reason why the inde-
pendents should not be Independent
and hold their meetings without be-
rg made the recipient of any of the
propaganda or publicity that goes
With the exponents of "God-given
monopoly" but 80 far as the writer
knows, there has never been ma
|tIonal banquet without some one
member OF the big house with more
nerve than good taste, wedging In
b little of his dope, put up perhaps
10 capsules to make them the least
offensive possible.
And, moreover, at the meeting at
|0kmulgee, there will be some real
I've question discussed which will not
|be touched on in Chicago, as for in
gance who pays the bill when our
aig concerns spend hundreds OF mil
IONS drilling for oil, and building
pipelines an dtank ships to carry
same when the best they can show
FOR the money is an ocean of salt
water. Or, when another s250,000,~
900 IL paid out over and above the
profits of a campaign In Texas?
Does It come out of the patient and
long suffering producers of the Md
Continent field, or does 1t come from
the pockets of the stockholders OF
the companies who play the game
lie drunken sailors.
The Chicago meeting of the Ma
tenal Petroleum institute is this year
going to be far less subject TO ridi-
ile than that held at Washington n
|ytar ago when everyone present pre-.
tcted famine in oil. and the head
Of the geological survey stated that
within nine years and a few months
at the present rate of consump-
ton" there would be no more crude
HI the country, and at least one or
lhem has confessed that he will not
Ivy being a prophet, never again. IL
II hound to be an interesting meet
ahg Chicago, however, and has the
5dv'ntage over Okmulgee inasmucn
PsIt will have every possible ave-
lfqe Of publicity wide open to II,
IShereas. okmulgee Independent OIL
men will be lucky TO get even line
y the papers throughout the coun-
by.
Strange TO say the meeting at Ok
inulgee will have IL far-reaching in
iaaence. II win be because, as stat
q above, many questions of great
ierest, which are taboo IN Chi
ago, Will be discussed at Okmulgec,
BaL there Is another reason that |
|H Influence will he wide spread, |
snd that Is, because the association
4 made up of brave and fearless |
s,cdy OF men who have the right on |
fae'r side. 1t is the right to live, the |
!isnt to an open road" for their |
Foduets, and the right TO participate |
e the profits OF the game, and this |
|. time when the entire world is |
Irning to us for its most needed |
Product