Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
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rnindreaders, and I want you to re-
member another thing. Anybody can be
a mule driver All he's got to have
but he's got to have its shade more
sense than the mule
IT admire my friend and don't think
he should be discouraged"
Hurley has q well chiseled face. Its
features are turned very clear and
clean and very set. Nature made it that
way. and a plainsman's passion for the
artifice of POPULARITY in solemnity has
made 1t more so. The near observer,
Western mask He has one feature that
betrays him. His Irish eyes laugh.
Obtains an Education.
His schooling in shaft No. 6 of the
Atoka Coal & Mining Co. came to a
happy end. From driving Kicking Pete
underground he was graduated. at the
age Of IA, into punching cows and liv-
ing on the backs Of horses in the open
air From time to time he examined a
book IN the evening. under the guild
ance OF Scotch schoolmaster named
Golightly. He was never in a grade
school. He was never in a high
school His only primary or secondary
education was gained through occa-
sional visits to Golightly's night school.
Golightly did not have time to teach
him all the words In the dictionary.
In the midst OF that transitory i'm
perfection in his development the boy
happened to encounter DR.. John H.
Scott, who was the president Of Indian
University. now called Bacone College.
DR.. Scott was attracted by his appear
Ance and manner and had heard of his
family. He said to him:
Il understand that your people are
Celts"
mo. sir" said the boy resolutely.
From what know OF them. they were
all Irish"
DR.. Scott determined that the boy
needed, and should have, college edu-
cation.
Becomes Bachelor Of Arts.
By 1905, accordingly, at the age of %,
pat" Hurley had been transformed by
DR.. Scott into bachelor of arts.
One course which he took in Dr.
SCOTS institution of academic learning
made q most particularly deep impress
sion upon him. That was the course in
economics. Further, within the course.
there was one theory that opened up
before his mind binding vista of pre-
viously unimagined intellectual revela-
ton. The theory was the unearned
increment,
1t had never occurred to pat" as he
galloped mile after mile over limitless
land in pursuit of cows, with no neigh
bors visible, that neighbors. could make
your land valuable for you, If only you
got 1t and had 1t where they were and
then did nothing but sit upon 1t and let
the neighbors multiply, which, accord
ing to the theory, they would gladly do.
Pat" determined to try this theory
out just as soon as he could.
Comes TO National Capital.
Graduated and degreed by Indian
University, and all set now to take the
next hill Of knowledge on high, he pro-
ceeded forthwith the whole way to the
National Capital. There, through
courses In the National University. he
lor Of arts but also a bachelor OF laws
BY this time the thirst for academic
information seems to have got wholly
the best of him. Concluding his studies
In the National University, he plunged
into further studies in George Washing
ton University, where so many of WASH
ingtons daytime workers are nighttime
students.
He was practicing law and studying,
but he was also noting the merits OF
Washington's street corners. He noted
than others. He remembered the all
legged usefulness of neighbors in the
scholastic science of economies. Back
of him was the Gdventurousness Of his
T..sss. tafiUesIry.
His father was born In County Water
ford on the east coast of South Ireland.
He left Ireland shortly after an outburst
of unusual activity among the Fenians.
1t is thought that the British govern
ment and he were in agreement on only
one point-that it was best for Fenians
to travel. He Travelled to the Harbor c.
New York. and thence by sea again to
the Harbor Of Galveston. and thence
directly overland to the domain Of the
Choctaws.
His Rise as Lawyer.
In washington, In the midst Of the
sometimes fatal fascination OF the Fed
eral Village, the son did not separate
himself from his recollections OF the
countrys last frontier. He became at.
torney for the Choctaw Nation In its
dealings with the white mans govern
mental policies and activities. He be-
came the head of law firm at Tulsa
and practiced In the courts OF Okla
iloma, as well as In Washington In the
supreme Court of the United States
Ize handled litigation for the ChoctaH