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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

six. were cruelty massacred. They
were ordered TO run a gauntlet OF
rifle fire; only to be shot to death
at distances Of a few feet when.
wounded, one or two of a Eroun
fell and dragged others to the
ground. They were stabbed ana
hacked to death with knives: beaten
with clubs. and at least three o.,
them hanged, while six men were
said TO have been dragged over A
rough rocky road behind an auto.
mobile.
IL this story or a 1.-THE OF It IS true
the union miners have lost their
cause and they may as well realize
II, 20 to work today II they ara
sober and not under arrest or ESQ
give place 10 those who will wo.s
The thing left TO he settled now Ia
whether or not this horror shall be
allowed TO spread to other mines or
whether the country has had
enough OF II. The original issus
passed out ot reckoning when tho
first nonunion miner was murdered
The country has been sineulsrIy
Indifferent 10 the strike. both iu ,N.
anthracite and .bitumlnous fields a..
though the comfort, the employing,
and even the lives OF all of us are a,
stake, but this story from Illinois
should result In action and that
swiftly. The time for Indifference
Is at an end.-llartford Courant.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
PASSING THE BUCK.

Under the caption "Do IT Yourself. VIII" the
Washington Post crltlclscs tho uplifter OF the
movies, tho Hon. VIII Hays for appealing TO
the already too much ngItatcd rcformcrs FOR aid
in making the movie industry wha, Il should
be. The Post editorial ls readable
VIII Hays. who retired from the limo
light to tho screen light somc umo ngo, has
appealed TO the public to help him carry
out his &15OOOO-a year Job OF putting tho
movies on a thoroughly and permanently
moral basis, while at tho same tim" pre-
serving tho box office receipts. The movie
industry has found itsclf between the dew
lis and the deep sea; the devils arc some *
possible censors In as many states and the
deep sea IN the 30, 600 900 or thcrcabouts
OF people who daily pntronze the thcaters
where the picture drama IL presented. II
apparently T. a tough Job thst the wizard wizard
sentatives OF about 80 civic associations
ranging from the Boy Scouts to tho trus-
tees Of the Hall Of Fame. met MIR. HAYS In
New York tho complications Of the situAtioO
loomed large. committee Of civic not
ables has been appointed to give more in
tensiye consideration to the solution OF the
problem.
1t ls doubtful, however whether this now
city In tho operating OF big business will
prove popular with other captains OF In
dustry Fancy Mr. Rockefeller calling "A
convention OF automobile users ana repre-
sentatlves from tho Dorcas societies In
towns whore the kerosene lamp stin burns
TO tell him how he ought to run tho stand
ard OH company He might get some good
fad. AZ for the movie question, however,
II Is pertinent to suggest that those who are
directing II know what brings I'm the money
and they also know what faces them In
the way OF regulation II the respect OF tho
people of the country liz not obtained and
held Az good business men, they ought
TO he able to decide what to do for their
own best Interests without calling direct
primary or circulating a petition.
We seem to have fallen upon times wher
everybody is deslrous OF passing the buck. Duly
constituted officials. seek to evade responsible
fly by unofficially appointing n group OF pr
vate citizens 20 work with them and share re
sponsibility.
In short. It has been 40 frequently proven tha
q sidestepper and demaEogue can be successful
that everybody is doing II. II VIII Hays want
to make the folks believe he ls complimentini
them and can accomplish his purpose thusly
why not?
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
FLORAL SHOW SUCCESS
Planting OF Flowers Gives Conn
munity Aspect Expert Tells
Pawhuska Contestants.


PAWliCSKA, July 1.-According
to state extension directors here for
the occasion, the second annual
flower show here Thursday was a
decided success. Prizes were
awarded at short program In the
afternoon. Awards were on flowers,
vegetables, gardens, lawns, window
boxes and plots maintained by buA-
ness houses. d. c. Mooring N
saltwater was Judge OF gardens,
lawns and vegetables and Louis
Flint of Arkansas City judged flow
ers.
Mr., Mooring said that he could
detect a great difference in the APP
pearance of the community that he
attributed, at least in part, to IN
terest IN the flower show. He said
he found more people taking care
of their yards and the lawns are
receiving better care than year
ago.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Miners Must Purge Unions.

IL Is utterly impossible to char
acterize adequately the hideous orgy
of violence and dastardly murder
ar the Lester coal pit, Herrin, III.
The outrage was a piece of horrible
barbarism which reduces those who
looked on with approval to a level
that occupied even by the unspeak-
able Turk, It stands as an I'M
pardonable offsense against Amerl-
can civilization and against the peo-
pie Of the nation. The whole coun-
try has right to demand punish
ment. swift and complete.
II tho local authorities do not act,
the state authorities are bound to
40 so, and they are bound also to
lnquire into any negligence or cow
ardice by the local officials. II
the state OF Illinois finds itself pow
erless 10 proceed effectively. then
the federal government should step
IN to the very limit of it's power.
In some way the flends that stand
laughing shamelessly and bragglng
OF their crimes, and that openly and
leeringly defy the law, must be
brought to Justice. The honor and
the safety Of the country demands
this. The United States cannot af-
ford 10 temporize or compromise
with such outbreaks.
For their own sake then. and for
the sake, OF their organization II
Tor no other reason It behooves the
leaders OF the miners 10 condemn
utterly and by fruitful act as well
as by mere word, tho fearful thing
that has happened at Herrin, TO
repudiate utterly the monsters re-
sponsihle, and in all ways possible
70 assist the authorities TO bring
ahout proper punishment ~ those
men, II they fail In this, they will
tortelt every bit OF sympathy and
support their organization NAV now
he receiving from the American
public, The United Mine Workers
must thoroughly purge themselves
or become objects Of horror in the
country Detroit Free Press.
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"Trcat Them as Outlaws"

There 10 40 escaping the RESPONSE
hllity Union men did the killing.
Men with union cards in their p,cE-
cts, wearing union made clothes and
with their sympathizers battered In
the faces of dying men and denied
them the poor comfort OF a cup of
water as they died under the opon
sky surrounded by the jeering orr
scOurings OF south Europe mad-
dencd by a devilish class hate. Lew
elcd pistols drove away the mcrgl-
ful.
Asked by his union officials in
the Herrin district as to the union
status OF these men who had gone
to work, hearing that they claimed
To be card men, in another orr
ganization, John /. Lewis answered:
Representatives of our orggul.
zation are justified in treating this
crowd as an outlaw organization and
in viewing It's members in the sams
Hight as they would any other com.
mon strike-b breakers"
They did. The dead and mutllat-
ed bodies scattered for miles about
Herrin, testify how well they in
terpreted the Lewis letter. Phillp
Murray Is doing the first brazening
and lodging for Lewis. Gompers Is
uttcring senile pomposities.
The Illinois and Williamson
county officials we're asleep or
worse. Officials knew the peril OF
these men who held out for u
hours after the first reports OF fir
ing: but there Is no indication that
sheriff or state observers lifted
hand TO save them. Now the MUIR
derers openly boast of their decd
ana scott at the state OF Illinois,
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Illinois SLOW TO Act.

Where the immediate fault for
the outbreak lies is yet TO be de-
termined, but certainly the message
from President Lewis, of the mine
workers union, saying that the
striking miners were Justified in
treating this crowd Ohe steam
shovelers in the strip mlncs) as an
outlaw organization and in viewing
the members in the same light as
they would view any common strike
breakers did not tend 10 pactfy the
men whose tempers were already
deeply stirred,
The only thing to be done now Is
restore order. The Illinois officials
have been slow in acting. That the
situation quickly got out of the con-
troll OF the local authorities is evil
dent from every report that comes
| from the district. The power of the
STATE was necessary TO command
| the situation In the interest OF
ace. A quick call should have
been made for It, and the state
| should, and presumably would, have
! ! handed promptly. The latest re-
ports are that the situation Is quiet
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Press of Nation Demands Justice
For Murders That Disgrace Nation

force and murder the strike break
ers." To unionized men they are
strike breakers and "scabs," but
this is not the view OF the law or
of the public. That the striker has
no title to his job when he throws
1t up ia a principle that evidently
must be upheld by the law. or all
foundations Of property and govern
ment go by the board. The right to
strike in concert is recognized in
most states, as in Illinois, but no
state recognizes the right to inter-
fere II others stand ready to take up
the job. Where organized labor
may hope to win Is by controlling
the labor market. so that when 1t
strikes nobody is left to go on with
work, but when II Is small minor
ity In any skilled trade this monopoly
Is impossible. Its tendency then is
to employ violence and intimidation.
II under the recent decision of the
supreme court union can be held
liable for damages for property de-
stroyed, the same reasoning should
mold union liable for injury to
life and limb where violence Is
used to enforce a strike. The law
has dealt leniently with strikers re-
sorting to violence, but il is making
some headway, as the Coronado de-
cision shows, and Is on the way TO
destroying a labor union that COM
mits murder as well as one that
lootS property.
II organized labor cannot abide
by lawful means to win It's cause Il
should be abolished by the law and
public opinion, and the sooner strike
leaders are convinced that this is
the growing sentiment of the Amer
lean people, the quicker is there
likely to he a coming together of
capital and labor on some common
ground OF reason and lawful fair
dealing,-Topeka Capital.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Barometer OF Public Opinion
william Smith Discla,ms Letter

Editor World. The article IN your Saturday
Issue relating to the Convention hall and
signed "Wm. Smith," was not written by the
undersigned.
Inasmuch as the author OF the article seemed
TO be wen acquainted with theatrical conditions,
many OF your readers would naturally conclude
that the underSiBned was responsible for the
statements made In the article referred to.
II tho name Of the writer OF the article is
really william Smith. will you please furnish his
address In your next issue of The World, that
the identity Of the writer may be established.
Yours very truly
W. NJ SMITH,
Tulsa. July /. Orpheum Thoatcr
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Labor Cannot Sldcstcp.


1t was in the commonwealth Of
Illinois that this Gene described so
carefully by the Associated Press,
took place. II was not revolution
or war that was being described,
either. 1t was Just a new interpre-
tation OF the brotherhood of man,
which has been held up as the ideal
OF the union labor movement, put
on by some 5000 miners, attacking
some so men who had the temerity
10 work in spite Of the coal strike.
II is not enough for Samuel
Gompers and other officials of the
American Federation of Labor to
disapprove--to say that union labor
never approves OF violence. 1t Is
not enough for the head OF the Illi-
nols miners to claim provocation.
II the disavowal OF union labor
heads Is shown by the prompt dis
ciplining OF the Illinois union min
ers; II the whole union 10 which
these Illinois murders belong is
promptly thrown outside the breast
works OF organized llhor and the
burden of proof OF their Innocence,
which so far they do not even
claim, Is put on them, then organized
labor may be believed to really dis
approve the Illinois crime.
But organized labor, as move
ment cannot sidcstep. II mus.
clean its own house or stand re-
sponsihle for the crime committed
in its name.--Michigan State Jour
nal
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Lewis Telegram II Permit

Buildings were burned, the tracks
torn up, the cranes dynamited. The
strikers were not content with kill
ing the nonunion men who were
trying to earn an honest living hy
getting out coal that the public
needed. The strikers beat them,
mutllated them and then strung
them up to trees. The superin.
tendent Of the coal company was
beaten 10 death. Yet the sheriff
said he didn't think II was noccs-
sary to call for troops and he
thought there would be no more
trouble. And the rest of the civil
officials of Illinois seem to have
been of the same yellow stuff.
There is terrible lesson I'm II for
the voters OF America. The horror
ana the savagery OF the rioters an
their sympathizers when even n
woman with her baby in her arms.
stamped her foot upon the manglcd
body or n dying man who begged
for a dring OF water. shows how
weak Is the barrier that separates
orderly government from bolshcvism
and anarchy. how thin the veneer
that covers savagery so that 1t stlm.
ulates civilization.
The riot we are told, started
when word was received by local
union leaders from the Union Mine
workers headquarters in India
narolis. They started n. They
said that the Shovel mems union :"
10 which the men working the mino
claimed 10 belong, was "unauthor-
lZed and outlawed hv tho American
Federation OF I.ahor."--Ccdar Ram
Ids, Iowa) Rep, and Times.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Jobs Not Personal Propcrty.

The Illinois miners regard the
mining Jobs their personal property.
Notwithstanding that they refuse TO
work them. When attempts are
made to fiji the jobs with men will
ing to work, the miners come cut Ia
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

Governor Jim calls the members OF the last
legislature scoundreis. Maybe so, maybe so. At
any rate they treated Governor Jim rough, while
his standing In the church is not such as TO
cause any surprise at his refusal to turn the
other check
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of
Williamson Illinois
finger the Now that both have dsgraed
humliatod before world universal
justice much possible of stain These
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should a woman tel?' asks Hazel Batchel-
lor The theoretical answer has little TO do
with the substantial fact She will tell, ninety
nine times out Of a hundred.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
What Is to Be Done I'm CooIo


Men come to America under tho
aitruistic notion IN tho American
mind, that hcre they are n climb
into the melting pot and through
some alchemy are to appreciate 70
the full what is meant by liberty
under the law and obtain something
or the spirit OF the American re-
public. Thousands OF them have
II Is not perhaps too much TO say
that other thousands will become
tullv Americanized. But we have
had within tho last few hours tn
terrible example OF what immoral
men brutal men, uncurbed men
men with primitive passions and in
stincts OF wolves--can do.
There Is nothing under the heav-
ems 70 pa,liate or soften the crime ~
tterrin. Whatever has been said N
the communist in Russia can ho
said OF these southern Furopean
representatives. I'm the mines az Her
rln' They live, move and have their
nelnC In rebellion against the law,
IEcY nave murdered IN cold blood.
nave DESTROYED pronerty and hava
OF death
II Is said hv tho operators tha' 4"
mo consumers NJ coal would mt IN
,hc winter sunnlv now. Il would start
Addnional mines and make soma
actlon necessary. Rut II that shouIt
ne done ana tho available sunnlv ho
turthor reduced would tho onerato-s
ana minors get together and ,sg
tne mining NJ coal and ~ sN eA,
whose terms? 4 congressional iN4
Ncstication would do no good. Cool
mining figures are easy IN he had.
What we do know Is that we ara
Fattirr nowhere eXcent to chronicle
murder or q massacre or n blow
IN mine here and there.-Janesvil'e
lWisconsInl Gnzettn-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Unions Have Lost the Strike.

Open statements from scores Of
persons on the streets were that the
working men surrendered Mt the
first onslaught and. after having
been tied into groups OF three and
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

Congressman swank Is out with denial that
he has Joined the league. While there is no ex-
PLANTATION it is supposed he refers to the league
Mayor Walton owns,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
A Wise Absence.

~ Tho United States having STAYED ou,o,, ,.o,,
fI,Wa' promptly decided not 10 90 10 Tbc
ai'tu'' Nhat happened at Genoa proved ~
ng mo"ty eSeryhodys satisfaction that our absence
conferred great credit on this country and o
oo nmen me Hague meeting was devised ~
oTEoF F up inc Genoa failure. or at least ~ on w
n1aEc me promoters OF that futile gatheri8r to
MAKE less unEraceful exit. '"s W
t,, ne nasue epilosue opens tomorrow rbo
1tt 1ri,t to'responuence between the French AVA
tatn tS's" hoNtThments which precedes the cmr
@ H'n raslhg shows again how wise was our s,ot =
stons wbiohS ret9sai to be ehtanged in discus
nGuH WHIch hold out no hope of benerit a., :,
MhCh Tor months have been merelv transSorrl1 NM
ostensbf 4ne pace TO another. Genoa was planned
tho bnoiSSi TS an er0nomic conference. But from
UoITiVuea' NOT only was there politics but had
pSS"ucS 30 II was sought TO make conslderatjon
sboniS S""ultohs on which the soviet rspin,o
on onouln oe recogni2ed an opening wedge no tbe
sfaneeuation f, OF international debts ana the rey,
serest Few OF its promoters II n cenno, ha usi n
''' '"' same purposes,--New York Tribune,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

Europe failed to draw US into her conferences
but II the tourist crop keeps up she'll get what
she was after just the same,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
IL Answers In a Pinch.

The prohibition commissioner has ruled that
dandelions are not fruit Neither Is can OF
malt extract but still some people keep right
on treating II such under the Volstead act
Detroit Free PresS
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the hereafter
Old Bill Duglcy. who never exorts himself
anyway declares that everything has been
taxed except mis- energy.
and wife who have nothing else to do but sit
n tho gont-Rland operation on Mr. McCor-
mick proves succcssfu there will soon he q
lot Of bltt.ug around Tulsa. And then well all
be asking Who's our leading goatf'
Judge owen in,lmltos that Bob wilson must
have used one Of his own school arthmetics In
figuring hla standing IN the percentage column
from the straw vote.
one Tulsa lady says sho would not mind hav.
Ing her teeth oyorhaulod II It was not because
the dentist thinks hc has 10 either take u head
lock or strnnFlo hold before he can do the
work
elected governor unless ho indorses tho pres
cut administration. n that be true, then at
Toast two ot tho candidates will he eliminated
before tho first nine holes are played.
The girl on South Main aays Just about the
only thrill sine gets out OF JOY ride Is TO go out
with bunch Of girls ana have a couple Of
smart guys honk and honk In an expensive car
AZ they pass aud repaas her fvycr.
Governor Robertson said IN his McAlester
speech: II ! had n to do over. ali the gold
In ChriNondom would not induce me 10 run for
governor" Which shows how man falls down
because dinners nre worn on his foresght in
stead Of his tail light
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Oklahoma OufburSts
By uTis LORTOA

Though, for today VIII we sweat this way in
the hcrcaftcr2
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

with the dead scattered over a
l5-mile area and some of the
wounded in the hospitals; but this
quiet evidently does not mean safety,
and there IL every evidence that
the force of the state will be neces-
sary to restore lawful conditions
and make life and property safe,
When this II done the question Of
finding and furnishing those guilty
Of finding and Furnishing those
of the slaughter can be determined.
INDIANAPOLIS News,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

Among the unnecessary idlc rich the man
and wife who have nothing else to do but slt
iu a hotel room and play "cnch" all day.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
Bible Thought for TOddB
InIr 2

July ?
REAL pEACF.--WlsdoW'g ways arc ways OF
pleasantness and all her paths are peace
Proverbs -.
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Old Bill DuElcy. who never exerts himself
anyway declares that everything has been
taxed except mis- energy.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

n tho goat-Rland operation on Mr. McCor-
mick proves successful there will soon he q
lot Of blttlug around Tulsa. And then well all
hc asking WHO'S our leading goat2"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

Judge owen intlm1tos that Bob Wilson must
have uscd one Of hls own school arithmctics in
figuring hls standing in the percentage column
from Tho alrlW Vnio
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-01-12
APPEALS
FROM RULING MADE
BY ORDINARY GAM

An interesting affair in the ordin-
.ary's court was that Of the suit re-
'quiring the executor of the Bacon es-
tate to give bond pending litigation
which came up for hearing last
Thursday morning.
Westmoreland and Smith, of At
lanta, were the attorneys of the ex-
ecutor, while the caveatrix was rep
resented by Morris and Hawkins and
Clay and Wallace.
The hearing before Judge Gam
lasted for more than two hours and
some lively argument was entered in
to by both sides.
The principals in the case were Mr..
S. w. Baker, brother of the decea-
sed and the executor of his estate,
and the widow Of the deceased,
Mrs. George NJ. Baker.
After the hearing Ordinary Gam
ruled that the executor would be re-
quired to give bond, and immediate
ly an appeal from the decision was
taken to the superior court.