The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-12
Mothers
BY NORA COLE SKINNER

So Mrs. Obenchain, mother OF the
young lawyer who went to the aid
OF his former wife accused Of mur.
der in California, IL reported TO have
given TO the public a vastly harm
ful interview relative to her son and
the accused.
Possibly it is not wholly consS
crate, nor maybe in the best OF tass.
10 call attention to imperfections OF
another when that other already en-.
dures much that has been visited
upon her through no fault Of her
own. but publicity is one Of the
penalties in such case, and surely
our bit cannot add much to the al. .
ready full page.
1t may be that we, because ~
memories, have an exalted and hal.
lowed regard for mothers, but Il
was our conception that regardless
of what went before, regardless Of
heartache. humiliation and pain,
mother, real mother, forgot all
when affliotion came to her own.
Mrs. Obenchain is reported TO
have prayed for her sons death
rather than see him remarked to
his former wife. to have upbraided
the woman, made revelations con-
tradictins testimony helpful TO her
proclaimed her IA witch" and the
other woman" who had robbed
her of her boys love. and labeled
him an "unsrateful SON"
II goes without saying that she
has suffered much. one can read
between the lines and deftly surmise
that twas a case of incompatib!liV
between mother-in-law and daugh-
from fh. ftTGf and 1iffla could
she be blamed for feeling bitter al
the blighting of his life when the
wife left him at the ailuremeuts Of
another. And now, it is again her
misfortune that the one at whose
feet she already lays so much, should
bring upon her son nationwide, un'
desirable publicity, possible oppro'
blum, and disrupt once more Wy
even tenor of his apparently CONF,
mendable way.
But with 1t all, in this shrine we
held sacred for mothers, it was our
belief that not one lived but would
lay down her own huiy when It was
the heart other child that called,
BE the woman what she Maya
she the ill-omencd star or the
spiration of the young EyanTdh
students life, no proclaimed for her
his undying love and sacrificed his
all to fly to her defense. With such
an eXemplification Of the place she
held in his heart. 1t is a sad com
mentary that at the time he strains
every atom of his strength and calls
upon every spark Of his ability as
lawyer to win her freedom. his
mother. we hear. half continen!
away, endeavors to turn puohc
opinion against him and gives TO the
lawyer sent east to "unearth past
all the aid she can muster.
II is not our intention TO write
sob story relative to the strange case
in the Golden state. our only IN
terest there is that justice may si
supreme, but it was the uneXpectel
expletives of an unnatural motha
that drew us off the beaten pain
I'VE men go up the churchyard l1N
With joke and song and rlbald 90
But silent, just beyond the wall !
The dead that We're our mothers Ass
And here and there along the close
Deep-trodden in the rain SoaA'S
grass,
The dreamloss. uncomplaining aus
VIII glow to hear our iools"T
pass" III.
II is something in n tune WIZ
these current lines from an EngnsH
source that our dreams of all no,a
ers have run. And it IL In somefhns
of an effort to stabilize and re'.,.
TO that which in spite of the aH
example we still hold true, tnaL "a
write here. with reverence, resa'V
ing our faith.