The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-31
Barometer of Public Opinion
QnnrrcIIng MIih The Edltnr.-lNn. 81


Editor World. You viii be glad to know that
my storm ot anger has entirely subsidcd and no
harm done. never could stay mad moro than
two days. no way. wish | could. but / can't
1 would quit voting no republican ticket II
could stay mad. but can't stay mad tperhaps
! should say angry, hence and therefore shall
continue TO stick 20 tho traditions and religion
and politics of my daddy. Yes. cir. the rcpubli-
can ticket was good enough for pa aud u is
good enough Tor mo stick Co The family tree
I'm not going to hitch onto any new-faugIcd
Ideas Poverty is good for the world. II mikes
people hustle and sacriiico and save. This here
.hyuE campaign has been q blooming success.
why sIr, tho working class OiigdrChy Is b,lom-
ing awruly de-po'.o. II hut taken advantage of
ihlh saving idea uuiil something Ike per cent
~ tho workers luvc accumulated vast wealth
sufficient 200 dofj1y burial expenses at their re-
spcctIvo aud several deaths sp 10 sneak pud ,4
~ were. Such concentration Of wealth slr is
dangerous, and ! Tor ono raise my haud 10
patriotic protest
has bccd worth a sight to the community. Sug
has not been blazing success teaching reading.
WrlinE spelling ana arithmetic, but sho Is
power In teaching thrift
Why sir. she act the community hflro with
iho trver OF saving aud industry. We don't Jet
anything 40 to wasie. Parcutheucally let me
caution and advise and suggest that you save
this paper upon which these fow lines are Iu-
scribed. We've got us a p1per-saylug machine
over ut our school We Cl moan our children
can pick up bits OF discarded paper and deposit
ln mat inuchine Tor while ana then We bale
v"lno "f this Item alone amounts 10 some five
or ten dollars.
Ia the meantime tho ucghborhood loses sev-
oral million dollars by means Of an out-of-datu
marketing system. There 1 go. Nj. Editor,
have you "a paper-s1vlug maChiuc2 An patri.
ouc cltzcns have them II you have not got
one by an means get one.
Well sir, In 1920 made a busting crop of
cotton. We were advised 10 do IT for patriotic
reasons Sir II is a fact trat that cotton was
not worth saving, and bale after bale went to
ruin in the patch. There Was overproduction,
they say. The world was too well clothed, per-
haps. About the same time. or a little earlier,
wool was wasted by the millions Of pounds
not worth saving. The world dressed up so
well II did not want TO dress any more. And
wheat went TO the bad. People ste mucn
tncy qut eating.
In the meantime wc were pushing our saving
campaign here In Pumpkin Holler school. Here
is about the way the bill stood:
Ten bales waste paper, value. .......S so
2OO pounds rags, values. ......,..,,.. rs
Totai...............,...
Economic loss due TO marketing con-
dluons, about ..-............S1,OO0 900
Puzzle; Why Is IL that civilization that can
givo us the electric light, wireless telegraph,
telephone and phonogrHph can't give
economic system under which, when we make
an abundance, we could enjoy plenty2
Mind you, sir. railroad and coal strikes did
not cause the poyer;y Of the world. Under our
present order or lack of system, the more wo
make the less we have.
In the meantime, let us go on baling our
paper, teaching thcift selling rags and try to
wear tow sacks and learn to live on wild onions
and greens.
Yours, Hasta otro voz
JOSIAH HttCK ELBY.
Marble CIV. Okla Aug "a