The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-17
HOLDS HER LIFE
UP AS WARNING
Smith Asks Girls
to Heed Moral Lesson
That 1t Teaches
SHE SEEKS QUIET NOW
y,.nts to Get Out Of Lime
light and Be Normal, She
Tells Mildred Morris
~ MILDRED MORRIS.

EV MILDRED MORISLo.
os,iopsi News Correspondence.
''.s,,vbt nations, Newspaper scrvico.
,RpMoRE, Okla, Jan. 1s.--In an
.,.,usive interview today. the first
r,on since her return from Mexico,
r.r. Smith Hamon bade girls to
,,s moral lesson from her life.
Tho Young woman. who will soon
s,s a fury charged with the murder
.take l.. Hamon, Oklahoma oil
tng and republican national com
mit,eeman. said with emotion, III !
had my life TO live over again l
would marry young and settle down
in a little home with husband and
habies A girl Is fool who ts daz-
,lcd by the glamour or good times
"a money If she defies tho con-
~n,Ions OF society. she must pay the
n,Ice and It is a cruel price as can
,ss,ify from bitter experience. To
Ss,v the moral laws laid down by
.ocety is like butting ones head
.cainst n stone wall. II brings moth
nc hut sorrow. There are many
horns IN a life of roses and the girl
who is wise will choose the life. conf
mon place as 1t may be. that gives
no, protection OF a home and q man
wt, loves and respects her"
.thcn she added, pathetically:
Consumed by Love.
INV only sin was to love, as TO
nost women, love to me was every
,h,ng The love I felt was like O
consuming fire. II moved me like
an Irresistible force. II made me en-
dure things that brought revulsions
and yet IL grew stronger with yes-s.
ri was love I tell you" she said
o,ssionately. such love can not
b. explained nor can you explain
Yourself when you feel such love.
rhc average woman. perhaps does
no, understand. The average woman
falls in love when she is young and
marries the man. She can't under
stand this love that made me help
less pawn in the game OF life. Let
no one envy me the life led--it was
no, the life ! had dreamed. Other
women have many interests. All my
interests were bound up in the. man
Y loved and now---wcil now am
having the price and all want now" "
she continued. us to forget. to he let
,lone. I want to be able to appear
In public again without people look :
ing at me as IL I were some strange
and horrible animal. I want to get
away from this newspaper notriety.
want quiet and peace. have not
ha dthem In the last ten years and
now ;carn for them above every
ihng | want to begin life anew and
No something worth while. I can't
believe II IL too late. know It
isn't. | am young yet and perhaps"
she added wistfully. " can fulfill the
Dreams I once had"
Doesn't Want Vengeance.
She would not discuss her case
Or the man with whose murder she
s charged. but she made clear she
has no desire for vengeance.
Il do not want others to suffer.
have no desire to defamc anyone"
she said, ".tll want now is to be
free, TO forget this terrible thing.
and all ask is to be let alone.
have been pictured as a woman who
wanted money. am not concerned
about any will. ! am not thinking
about money My only corCern now
Is my freedom and future"
As she talked. tho accused woman
nt in the cozy living room Of her
SISTERS home In Wilson. an oil settle
rlent near Ardmore. She presented
IN attractive. appealing figure IN
her simple black frock. Her dark
hair was simply dressed. Her face
showed the strain of the ordeal
which she has undergone. There
vas nothing to suggest the light
hearted. gay creature she has been
pictured, One is Immediately i'm
'n-essed BY her intelligence and poise
IL you were chara cter-in dexinG
fra Smith Hamon you would cata-
her in your mind as a girl OF
Writ and thoroughly capable. After
alking to her II is not difficult Ia
believe the stories told in Ardpore
ef how she helped Jake Hamor. II
sad that the shrewd advice given
ny this girl was largely responsible
lor the millions md power attained
Sy the oil king.
In Nrdmore they believe In Clara
smith Hamon. They believe she has
he character to do somethina
worth while" and no one doubts hci
ncerl,v when she says that she 1,
none with the kind OF hfe. which ts
lun,n her only leads to sorrow."'
Public sympathy Is for her be-
'ause those who know her story fee
81 Ia.