The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-04
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Situation Become Interesting

Situation Become interesting
meeting called by Frank Breen
.,d several Of his Glove associates
vas held yesterday morning at the
.oops OF the Mid-Continont Oil &
%, ossocJatim and a most inter
osting session 1t was.
Tners we're enough oil men pres
40, T., give IL the appearance of a
nres.ptative crowd but after all
,Ssro vas something decidedly artifi-
-. .ai sb,ut the entire procedure that
80, ,hn d!sintcrested observer won
Sarirc what Il was all about and the
u,hy and wherefore of the entire
performance,
~ NAV be that some time oil pro-
~ viii learn how TO really CO.
anoraie and the chances are that the
,,o,o meetings the better, but In the
.,.,r,Iue IL is a good deal like the
,.or,,r.s clubs who always begin by
.oiscti-- "A parlimentarian and de-
nord .u her to put the thing over,
nitb reasonable semblance OF be-
ing the real thing
For Instance It so happened that
,.st.rdgy when the meeting had
convened and Charles Farren had
noon chosen chairman that Mr.. Far
"a, called on eome of the best oil
.rosucers among those present. with
,be result that the great majority
s,d they wero real oil men, were
much opposed TO the idea of asking
tho corporation commissions to take
any hand in the game. whatever.
having had experience with Mr'
Walkers bunch. in days gone by
which will last for at least the life
time OF any man who went through
ard who suffered by reason OF tho
control Of drilling wells. by this
same corporation commission.
II was also evident at yesterdays
mating that everybody present was
IN favor of tariff on Mexican crude
and the best and spontaneous APP
nlause came when the chairman read
telegram from w. II. Gray In
washington which stated plainly
that the Ways and Means commit
Zoo O fthe house were in favor OF a
tariff. being republican, and that
several Of them had expressed them
selves to that effect. 1t was cheer
ing news to those assembled who
mad been called for the purpose OF
asking the corporation commission
10 shut down drilling, when it was
A well known fact that the repre-
sentatives Of the oil men had plainly
stated that great shut down was
now In effect and that thousands OF
men were out Of employment.
But even so the meeting may have
no real effect one way or the other
because every oil man who was
there or who has been interviewed
since the meeting adjourned is frank
to express the opinion that should
he feel like drilling in order TO pro-
tect a lease, or to save himself from
bankruptcy ho is going to do as he
pleases. or according to the terms OF
his lease, which in fact is given him
by the land owner who wants his
land tested and who in the last re-
sort is the man that must be reck-
oned with.
This paper has been the first TO
n urge a shut down of drilling. II
4 would not be true to its convictions
were It to advocate the turning over
OF the entire oil industry to a cor
poration commission, which TO say
the least has been discredited time
after time or as often as opportun-
ity occurred to give some of the
iHHlAC N'l NA't WI BOl hlipI ibi'N
and this to the detriment of the
people Of oklahoma. The commits
sion has not as yet gained the con-
fidence OF anybody in the state and
certainly not of the oil fraternity
which knows more about 1t and its
activities than perhaps any other
class Of people in the state.
However at yesterdays meeting II
was decided to ask the corporation
commission to designate its author
iy 10 committee OF oil men who in
pm look after the drilling of new
1slls and to leave wells now start ed
fsolutely alone. IL brings to mind
the time a committee called on Gov
ernor Williams asking him to call out
the militia to shut down drilling
operation in the Cushing field. The
governor refused and the drilling
which was then hundred times
more aggressive than now was kept
going as long MS the big wells lasted
and the flood of cheap oil was a
Thing Of the past.
IL also brings TO mind that at that
ume when the Cushing field was
inally outlined that Murray Doar
remarked, and he was then az now
T, top notcher in the business and a
leader among oil men would Il not
nave been better had the Gushing
neld been carefully drilled and Q
better price realized? And 10 you
1on think so ask McFarlin OF tho
Mehan oil company and he vii
nu you that this is true" But
MA McFlrlin had this to say INC
lFheFe II was better as II was, and
,lalnN better than state contro
because of the ignorance and the
arrogance Of a lot OF employees OF
the corporation commission. TheS
cost US many thousands of dollar,
as II was and now that It is all back
vi US and the price is going up I am
perfectly willing to say that Il wa,
uetter as It happened and woult
no' allow the corporation commits,