The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-30

NEW NORK-AmerIca in general
aIkd Broadway in particular is due
foE n shock.
{And this despite the fact that the
eyhs, tastes and consciences OF
American have been dulled by
flSppers. bootloGgers and movies.
An English girl has promised tho
shock. She's Clare Sheridan, noted
scuiptress.
TheAvehicle sho will use in carry
ing or her announced intention TO
shockNShcs Clare Sheridan, noted
"Jazz."w II Is her latest work and
will be Unveiled in New York soon:
next br pth contradicts himself by
pungentHomment. showing intimate
acquaintfNce with such diverse
things as hho geology oe the Finger
Lakes country whore he lives, the
etymology of Indian names, the
landscape of the Italian lake coun-
try. intercollegiate athletics. biol
Cgy, etc.
Doesn't Play Golf.
"I don't play golf" he said, cor
cards. or any other game, except
| billiards, wherein l hold the cellar
championship of the Town and Gown
| club as the most hopelessly bad
| player ever known there. j like to
| look out OF the window and see
| trees and things grow. / like to
read, maybe natural science more
! than anything else. And | like to
| sit around and smoke and talk with
congenial people"
| As to his recent belated and spec
tacular entry into the political
arena, he said:
"It was simple enough. had
and have no personal political am
| bitions whatsoever. i had no desire
to go to Washington, and was under
no illusion that anything but n
miracle might land me there. This
district IL normally republican by
about 21,O00. No democrat has been
sent to congress since 1912, the
Bull-Moose year, when underhiil
of Corning was elected by less than
1900 votes.
'That being the case" he went
on, 'it seemed to me vitality I'M
portant that an opportunity to reg
lister an emphatic protest should be
seized and n demonstration given
that It isn't necessarily fatal to hold
definite political opinions and let
people know what they are. Pus-
syfooting is largely responsible Tor
q very bad condition which has de-
veloped in this country.
Outline of His Views.
"When the chance to get licked
as the democratic candidate was Of
fered TO me, | couldn't see that
had a right to refuse it, particularly
MS the congressional committee OF
the district promised to let me have
my head if / ran. so l wrote out
n statement of my views, which was
circulated through the district
When asked for statement ol
those "views," Judge Irvine handeo
over a. printed copy of mis- state
ment. remarking again that 1t wa:
"all in there" Which was so true
that the simplest way of setting
forth his political position Is to sum
mariZe the locally famous lettei
here.
He began by protesting agains
"a strong tendency toward central
ization OF power and usurpauon OF
power" by the federal government
which he said threatened the very
structure of the constitution and the
survival of the American principle
of local solf-goyernment.
Among such dangerous encroach'
ments" accomplished or threatened
, he specified federal interference IL
, the construction of state highways
! federal interposition in the contro
of the systom of public education
, federal maternity bills and othe
! measures (Which, under the guise o
, social welfare, have for their erect
, IL not their secret object. the vest
: ing of control in Washington owe
, matters essentially of home inter
, est" unwarrantable extension or IN
: commerce clause" whereby unde
the guise OF regulating interstat
commerce railroad employees nav
q been denied the protection OF IN
, workmen's compensation law an
, the states deprived of the right 4
! regulate local freight and passenge
/. rates. and, finally, the eighteentl
@ amendment, "the first successru
!, effort to deprive the states OF tn
exercise of the police powers; pow
: ers heretofore conceded to be IN
$ aiienablo by even the most extrem
Y federalists.'
, Liquor an Issue.
An Of which was "preachin
straightout, ld-fashioned demo
a cratic doctrine" in an essentiaii
. republican district, and therefor
4 hold enough. But 1t was nothin
5 TO what followed. First, In one o
' the "dryest' districts in the country
/ judge Irvine pronounced himself a
rnqualfied opponent of the Vol
| stead act. Next he black JACKIE
: himself with the soldier elemen
by declaring himself against so
% called bonus legislation for IN
\ benefit of able bodied veterans. ri
a nalIv making the handicap con