The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-25

the matter. woman" nnd she said
| MY child Is In tho we'll" ana the
| good doctor used this ns an illustra-
| tion OF how some people make fuss
! about nothing. and II has been used
a thousand times by preachers and
writer's ever since,
There arc some people who carry
| a gloom like tho typhoid carriers.
| but thcy should be Isolated In the
ccntcr Of the desert Of Sahara, when
! they begin the old song about tho
weather. or over production of oil,
or about the Ku-itluN Khan. or tho
labor unions, or the murders com
miitod yesterday IN the capitals OF
Europe.
u does no good. especially IN the
oil business. 10 worry. II is the one
business where only optlmlsts sue
coed. There was ono" a roflnor
with 1 refinery AZ Cushing who when
be saw the lO,OOO-bnrrol well on tho
jackson Barnett farm brought In.
went homo ana sent out broadcast
price Of cents per gallon on gaso-
line. and before another year his
partners because In the meantime
ho had boon eliminated from the
company were settled with the
Union Petroleum corporation Ot n
price OF n cents per gallon.
Tho same thing has happened
more than once, and now, when the
consumption OF petroleum and It's
products is exceeding the most san
guiuo estimates II IL no time 20
worry about over production. The
price Of oil will not 80 down Tho
price Of gasoline viii 20 higher IN
II states tomorrow. The Ku-KluX
klan Is teaching It's members lessons
In loyalty ana Amcricnnism. ana is
doing n I'm n most spectacular way
that will never bo forgotten.
And so--why worry about them 2
why not take 81 that thcy
the crusaders Of old. who took up
tho cross out Of the dust and em-
bla2Oncd II on their shields, where
before It had boon the symbol Of
shame and ignominv--wlll raise the
stnndards OF Amoricanism and per
haps will he most benefited thereby
themselves.
who will soy that the slaughter
OF miners IN Illinois will go without
n great lesson 10 humanity? And
will not the same Ku-KluX Khan.
which the union mcn condemned at
tho conference I'm Cincinnati the
other day, resent this and viii not
permit such lawlcsncss to disgrace
the country.
But there Is something 10 worry
about, and II shoud interest every
man in Tulsa and the Mid-Conti-
ncnt field. and that is the railroads
are refusing TO comply with the
mandates Of the interstate commerce
and make the 10 per
cent reduction In fr"IGht rates. from
Rroup 3 which means oklahoma, 20
points in Illinois. Indiana and furth-
cr east.
Only recently roflners east OF tho
were granted n 3 1-2
cent reduction In freight rates, and
30. the railroads Rre claiming that
this is all the reduction they are go-
Ing to make. and are going to make
no 10 per cont reduction from here
To the Mississippi river, In othf
words. Tulsn and other refining CEN
ters in Oklahoma, are to be discrlmi-
mated against. and right now tcle-
grams sent protesting against this
action. and sad to relate, are be
ing sent from Illinois. asking that
this discrimination still prevails
against Tulsa refiners.
Much of this correspondence will
be printed shortly. II will show how
men can be guided by their own
selfish interests az against the in
terests of the refining fraternity Mt
large. and how certainty there
should be n house cleaning In the
which looks after the
welfare of the Western Petroleum
Refiners associ9tion.