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The Indianapolis times., 1931-01-17

C. Il. Harrod
G. NJ. Williams
John A: Hook
John A. Lindgren Jr.
Fred Mills
Chas. NJ. Cooper
Hugh Mex. Landon
j. Don Miller
Louis M. Huesnlann
T. M. Rybolt
R. P. Oblinger
Carl c. Weiland
j. G. Shanessy
Louis G. Brandt
Donaldson q. Trone
John A.. George
W. W. Dark
F. H. Langsenkamp
Alex Metzger
g. B. Jackson
Lyman, 3. Whitaker
Frank L. Littletoll
Albert E. sterne
Albert M. Bristor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27


alfalfa Bill" Bolivia Bill" "Cocklebur
Bill" and the Sage Of Tishomingo" became
chief executive, the always emotional Sooner"
States nerves have been kept in vibration and
its interest to see what the Governor would
do next at high expectancy.
But don't forget for minute that "Bill"
Murray is the Governor. This man with the
booming voice, who could win a pig-caIling
contest hands down and then in the next hour
discuss Greek writer's and other classics with
the most erudite, is a man Of the Roosevelt
type. His hands may be callouSed from grab
bing the horns Of dilemmas but he is always
willing to grab By all Of the rules of politics,
the Governor should have been ground to bits
by the machine he enjoys wrecking or have
become the victim Of the fighting he has
invited, but he hasn't. Even his political enc
mics say he Is stronger now than when he
was elected.
4 low does it come that visionary, as BUSH
! ness men term him, who led 85 Western
farmers on q wild goose chase to Bolivia
10 find the pot of gold at the end Of the rain
bow only to discover that the title to their land
was no good, the land little better and Bo-
1ivia long way from the old home town,
Is cracking the whip IN Oklahoma? The So
called political leaders ask that question. There
are great many men with political ambition
In Oklahoma trying to fathom Bill Murray's
secret.
The stigma OF the Bolivia failure was hurled
against him In the campaign. The influential
newspapers ridiculed him. He was the subject
of caricatures. Every barb that the outraged
group which believes IN orthodox political
campaigns could find was leveled at Mr. Muir
ray. But on he campaigned, hitch hiking
when necessary. sleeping In farmhouses, visit
ing farmers, talking over drought worries with
Oklahomans speaking six and eight times a
day never whining. giving hard as he got,
and promising the plain folks that he'd upset
the apple carts Of the mighty once he got into
Office
William Allen white, the Kansas liberal
gave the Governor q shove in the direction of
the White House, MIR. Murray's friends say
when he said the present Oklahoma Governor
talks the peoples language In terms that in
spire confidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

BIZ Murray crazy?" said the man out of
job. Mebbe so, but he's doing more for US
than anybody in Oklahoma. He's for u.s."
This angular man that crowds feet, wears
10-cent-store socks and takes drag on q pipe
that's virie enough to suit the nvery-stable
forum. has caught the public,s interest and
favor because he's fighter. Maybe his fights
are 1l-chosen, but If bill" can't find his sword
and buckler he'd go out in his nightshirt
to tackle what needs tacxi;ng.
Gov. Murray's background isn't exactlv
kid glove and frock coat. He was q COW punch
er in Oklahoma and Texas. It is said his So
norous voice was developed while hating STAN
peding cattle The rough and-tumble life
made him q prairie philosopher and so tough
that thousands Of campaign speeches over the
State have not taken the mellow tone from
the voice or edged the humor which bubbles IN,
in spite Of his dour look
IN his governorship Alfalfa Bnr' has run
true to form. With threats of impeachment
and predictions that he wouldn't last long if
elected, Mr.. Murray campaigned hammered
the tactics Of his wealthier opponent, re-
piled to Jibes with the sarcasm or biting wit
reminiscent Of Jerry Simpson, who in the
neighboring State Of Kansas several years ago.
inspired about the same rtdcule and con-
founded the experts by being elected
Gov. Murray doesn't hide behind the
barn when the herd sire gets loose With talk
Of impeachment, he announced his candidacy
as 1OllOWS:
my enemies say If am elected Governor 1
will be impeacbed If so, then hereby an
nounce my candidacy for impeachment too II
the people who elect will also give me a
Legislature Of honest, sensible and sober men,
I promise to impeach the impeachers"
The impeachment never took place, but Gov
ernor Murray had a merry time with his Legis-
lature; jumped up to his neck in a highway
commission fight drew the enraity Of the uni
versity leaders by assailing the expense Of ath-
letics at the State university, and while this
was seething ordered investigation Of moral
conditions at the university. Almost every day
there was something new, and when Murray
made q statement it sizzled
Since he took once he has been the cham
pion OF the under dog. He always was for
that matter but in Oklahoma this year. as In
other Middle Western States there are more
under dogs. The drought hit Oklahoma last
year. There was unemployment. Governor
Murray ordered soup lines and community bar
racks. He personally visited the soup houses
His activity in calling attention to Oklahoma
City's unemployment plight didn't please the
Chamber Of Commerce But Gov Murray
didn't care. He aroused the people TO the
emergency, and degree Of success, at least was
made in the solution of the problem.
do you know why the people voted for me?"
he said shortly after the election They be-
lieved was unpurchasable, uncomfortable and
unimpeachable." ~
= OV MURRAY is as democratic as his ap-
~ pearance. In his hand me-down suit,
there's little executive swank and II Gov. Muir
ray ever Negotiated any one It was by mis-
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take. The Governors mansion Is run by Mrs
Murray, quet-spoken woman who prepares
dehcacies OF which the Governor Ii fond and
takes as much pride in her housewifely arts Is
other women do in their bridge expertness.
Governor Murray says he can tell whether
q man Is friend or an enemy by the nick
name he uses. II man calls him Alfalfa
Bill or the Sage of Tishoningo," he is a
friend. If he calls him "Old CockIebur Bill"
or Bolivia Bill" he Is an enemy
When Gov Murray grew the first alfalfa in
the Chickasaw Nation several years ago, he
talked and wrote so much about the new forage
crop that his friends began calling him Alfalfa
BILL" He wrote an article for q MuskoQee
newspaper and the story came out with the
caption, Alfalfa Bill on Alfalfa" The name
stuck, and so has the alfalfa
Gov. Murray was mixed up in q county seat
tight when the old territory and Oklahoma
were in the pangs Of young statehood. wapa-
nucka wanted to be county seat. Murray
was power in the Assembly and got Tisho-
mingo named instead. The editor In the rival
town referred to him as "Cocklebur Bill"
The origin Of the Bolivia Bill" il the trim
TO Bolivia. Gov. Murray took his family and
lost everything in the venture. He started out
originally as w. H. H. Murray, but says one Of
the initials was knocked OF when he was 49,
He lived In Springtown, Tex, and never missed
an opportunity to swap political arguments
Capt. Kidd, q laxative and ultra partisan voter
called Murray liar. The youth knocked him
down and Kidd responded by using his cane on
Murray. When Murray regained consciousness
the captain said, 1T wanted to knock an initial
or two out Of your name anyhow" From that
on, Murray wrote his name as William H.
Murray.
Gov. Murray Is a student Of history law and
the classics. His education has not been gained
easily. Born cotton patch In Texas In
1869 and left motherleSs when 2, he has seen
all shades and degrees of adversely. Yet he
has remained the idealist. He has faith in the
success Of good principles. Common sense APP
peals more to him than Greek roots yet he
admits fondness for the classics which COM
prise large part of his 5000 volume library
Apt in the vernacular of the Southwest, an ex-
pert in the hgurative language Of the prairies,
an open-air orator hard to beat, when called
on Gov. Murray can deliver an address couched
in the chaste, polished language Of student Of
the classics.
IT hold to the doctrine that civilization be-
gins at the end Of the furrow, that when the
pillow Of the Nation Is junked It results In de-
struction of commerce and industry and de-
stroys civilization. That is why I am for the
farmer and the farmer is for me. But in aiding
the farmer there Is no need to do injustice to
the consumer and to industry, but rather to
help Them" Gov. Murray said repeatedly In his
campaign.
NA/ITH things out Of joint economically, Gov.
iJ Murray believes In drastic remedies. He
called out the National Guard to enforce o shut
down Of Oklahoma oil wells until the price OF
crude went to 81 barrel His defense Of his
step was that a State resource was being wasted
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0ssd 50 has the alfalfa.
when oil sold at IS cents, far below the cost Of
production.
Gov. Murray opened the free bridge across
the Red River by executive order. The bridge
was built by taxpayers money, ready for use
and the Governor declared 1t open no matter IL
Texas Rangers did gather on the other side
When more pressure was needed Gov. Murray
and his National Guards went on duty at the
bridge. THE bridge win be used" he said ara
1t was. Fl
Oklahoma needed ice Gov. Murray ordered
the prison plant at McAlester TO manufacture
ice for sale. It sold 20 cents cheaper Der hun
dred pounds than ice made by free labor There
was the bread problem, too. Cheaper bread
was needed. Prison bakeries were put to work
turning out a loaf for nickel that is larger
than the bakers 10-cent loaf
Gov Murray's foes In Oklahoma say he Is a
demagogue with facile gestures toward the
presidential year. They interpret his appeal
to the proetariat good politics likely to bring
him the support Of the discontinued groups
They insist that his proclivity for the front
page in the newspapers is evidence of his politi-
cal ambitions, but the Governor denies this
aspiration.
THEY say in Oklahoma Gov Murray has
taken Andrew Jackson as his model for
political endeavor and cite this phrase from
his Fourth Of July address: "I will raise more
hell than any candidate for President since
Andy jackson" Use Of explosives is not diff
cult for Gov Murray and his foes admit he uses
the pointed phrases with the effectiveness Of
one familiar with the lingo of cowland
Observers point out that should he become
potential presidential timber, the Bolivia ex-
pertinent will come in for more airing It will
be exhibited as Gov Murrays demonstration of
statecraft. 1t was hasco and Alfalfa Bill
is said to have lost $500 600 in the venture It
was intended to be q model free State with q
communal foundation, but the plan blew up
because the colonists could not obtain title to
their land.
Gov. Murray admits he is rabblerouser He
has magnetism with the down-and -outers and
And great many voters OF a
different classification may be found who arc
not ashamed to be ON Murrays bandwagon
Murray rails at corporations In one breath and
predicts the collapse Of Government in the next
ct foresee the death OF q democratic fern Of
Government in this country" he said not long
ago. Authority Is shifting from the state
capitals to the National Capital. Soon these
State governments will be merely f1gureheads.
In another rs years our democracy viii be dead,
and we will have instead q popular autocracy.
As the Government In Washington grows i'm
power, the army win grow stronger and win
be used police power. This shift win take
from the common man the right to exercise
his own initiative"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
BY ROY BUCKINGHAM.

A VISITOR from California asked an
N Oklahoma City banker what was the
chief excitement in Oklahoma.
4 Bill Murray" said the banker
And he is, although he is the Gov
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27

Oklahoma!S C00C- Pnncher
Governor a Rough and
Tumble Prairie Philos0-
Pher Wh0 Crashes One
LimeHghf After An0ther
Because a Life of Id
Versity Has Made Him a
Champion of the Under
Dog, Likes Nothing Better
Than a Good Stand-U Up
Fght-He Tells WhyHe
us Ala0ays Battling.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

tor at various milestones of his life. One shows him as a boy of four, chubby little fellow with thatch of heavy dark hair and wide, starry eyes. Another shows him, a young man. seated in front of his first phonograph, the ln- vention of which took many hours of his life. Scrawled beneath IS his autograph.
 A single window lights the room, overlooking a slight slope that ends abruptly in a verdant valley, once the course of an old canal. At the time of Edisons birth, barges, laden with grain from the Great Lakes, piled this canal. On the banks the elder Edison operat- ed a shingle mill.
 The house, nestling on the side of the hill, was built nearly 90 years ago after the family's re- moval from the east. A white yer anda, whose slender pillars support a lean-to roof, sweeps across the front of the house and crooks half way around one side, a single step above the ground.
 The back of the house drops sharply into the valley. White, open shutters fiange the windows. Six small rooms are on the ground floor, two upstairs rooms and a small kitchen and dining room in the basement which opens flush with the ground at the rear of the home complete the establishment.
 In this house Edison was born the last of seven children, on Feb ruary II, 1S47. Stories that he romped about in tatters were sternly denied by his cousin.
 Its true that his father was in modest circumstances and had no bank account but he always was able to provide comfortably for his family" she said. She likewise repudiated tales that Edison was considered a dull student by his teachers.
 That story is nothing but fab rication," she said. His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. shortly before he was eight, but he went to school a short time here.
 "He was a sickly, puny child, suffering almost constantly from sore throat. The school, like all schools then, was not equipped with ventilating systems so the confinement of the classroom was injurious to his health.
 Finally, his teacher, pitying the little boy, recommended to his mother that she keep him from school and teach him herself. This she did. In later years. Edison at tributed a major part of hts success to the teaching he received from his mother. He adored her" Edison's mother had taught school as Miss Nancy Elliott in Connecticut, her birthplace. She died, aged 42. after moving to Port Huron.
 The old homestead here, which | Edison bought back after it had ! been out of the possession of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

family for nearly half a century. is the only landmark in Milan, where not a single one of the 7OO inhabitants can remember the 1n- ventor as a boy. The shingle mill owned by his father has long ago passed out of existence. The Pres byterian church where Edison was christened burned several years ago.
 There is no monument, no mu- scum to commemorate his birth. Reports that the family home would pass into the hands of the state as a memorial were denied by Miss Wadsworth.
 This house will continue in the Edison family" she said.
 Her mother, the late Mrs Nancy Elizabeth Wadsworth was given possession of the old home by Edi- son when he bought it back for the family. It is not open to the public.
 During his youth, Edison ire uuently returned to Milan for vls- it's but the chums with whom he hunted and fished have all preced- ed him in death. After his mar riage Edison's visits to the old home town bacame more and more infreuuent. His last visit was about eight years ago when he was ac- companied by Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford, cronies of his later years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

world would be using gas for lights; it would be using one-way telegraph wires instead of the mul- tiplex system now used; it would have no wireless telegraphy and consequently no radio broadcast ing. There would be no phono- graphs nor motion pictures nor dozens of other devices in routine use today commercially or in pri- vate homes.
 His inventive genius was cosmlc. To his credit are not only electrical devices, but also mechanical inn provements and chemical discover ies, ranging from synthetic carbolic acid to rolls for crushing iron ore. For several years past he has been experimenting on synthetic rubber. He prod Iced specimens, and was planning to make it commercially.
 Were it not for Edison, the aver ac p-rson would have some such series of experiences as this during his leisure hours.
 Walk from his office to steam elevated train or horse car; ride idly watching lamp lighters switch HE On gas AiSHtS Wilh AioOhS os tached to long poles; walk up a sidewalk of inferior cement into his house, tumble for a match, light the gas, and sit down to read the evening paper, walk to the neighbor's house after dinner to deliver a minor message; go to bed, being careful not to blow out the gas.
 There would be no Amos and Andy, no bridge lamps. no phono- grahp with symphonies and jazz. There would be no neighborhooG movie to attend with the wife and children. no telephone, no electric car or subw yatrain to take him home from work.
 During his day at the office he would dictate direct to his stenog- rapher, there being no dictagraph. If he wanted many copies of some statement or other they would have to be made laboriously on the typewriter-there would be no mimeograph. Even the typewriter owes something to the genius of Edison.
 His patents undoubtedly run into the thousands. In the past 12 years alone he has received 40. Evidence of his fame, even before his invention of the incandescent tulb, is found in the fact that he obtained patent for the phono- graph within two months after ap- plying. without offering single reference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

Tt is not only a debt for the great benefactions which he has brought to every American but also a debt for the honor he brought to our country. By his own genius and effort he rose from newsboy and telegrapher to the po- sition of leadership amongst men. His life has been a constant stimu- lant to confidence that our institu- tions hold open the door of oppor- tunity to those who would enter.
 He possessed modesty, a kindliness, a staunchness of char acter rare among men. His death leaves thousands bereft of a friend. the nation bereft of one of its greatest benefactors.
 q mourn his passing as a per- sonal friend over a quarter Of a century"
 Henry Ford. Automobile manu- facturer, one of the triumvirate of famed men and intimate friends which consisted of Edison. Ford and Harvey Firestone:
 MT Edison changed the face of the world in his lifetime and every thing he achieved was beneficial to mankind. He was the chief hero of my boyhood and he became my friend in manhood"
 Harvey s. Firestone. tire manu- facturer. third member of the famed group of three:
 ''Mr Edison. we all know, had the greatest mind of any man in cur generation. His unselfishness his willingness to saqvihce himself for others. his power of eoncen- tratlon and his natural genius all combined to drive him at top speed in his determination to increase
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
river because of an objectionable

river because of an objectionable item.
 Thereafter Edison received an opportunity to study telegraphy. Through working at night he was sleepy by day and often slept on the job on the trains. Caught mapping frequently, Edison was instructed to signal the letter "a" every hour to another station to prove he was awake. This led Edi- son to make his first invention. He devised an apparatus which automatically clicked out the let ter "A" on the hour. It worked flawlessly until he was caught sleeping and dismissed.
 From then on through the years his inventions or improvements on inventions came with rapidity. He improved the stock exchange tick
 CT when he noticed 1t one day run ming an hour behind, and got $40,-
 900 for it from Marshall Lefferts, president of the Western Union.
 That gave him his first real start it was on September 24, 1S69- and his economic security settled,
 he proceeded to devote his entire
 time to invention.
 He bought an old building at Menlo Park, N. J., in 1870 and de- veloped his laboratory that was
 unequalled in it's day. A toy built purely to amuse his assistants led
 him to invent the photograph. Chance has played a vital part in
 many of Edison's great inven- tions.
 rh. .aoo sof totfuno alactrioity for Illuminating purposes chal- lenged Edison. He and his work men started out to create an elec- tric light that would burn indefin- itely within a glass bulb. On Oc- tober 21, 1897, after spending $40,000 and personally conducting more than 5000 tests, Edison, all most totally discouraged, met with success. He succeeded in
 carbonizing length of cotton sew , ing thread which. when placed in
 an airtight glass bulb burned for 40 hours. t
 An argument about horses led
 the wizard of Menlo Park" to in- went the first successful motion. pie ture camera. Governor Leland
 Stamford of California, in order to |
 ming horse landed all four feet on
 the ground simultaneously had a
 photographer set up 40 cameras in
 a row and snapped horse in mo-
 ton. He was right.
 Edison saw the photographs,
 which was more important. and
 decided to reproduce the human
 figure in motion. He finally de-
 vised a workable machine in 1891. | The outbreak of the World war
 stirred a new Edison's inventive
 genius. Moved by patriotism, he
 worked more strenuously than at
 any time in his life. Numerous
 devices to aid the country in It's
 war came from his laboratory. He
 became head of the naval consult- ing board and directed the work of
 producing many new implements
 of war. In recent years he sought
 . substitute for rubber, working on
 itNuntil death.
 Edison was married twice. his first wife dying In 1884, leaving
 three children, Thomas Alva. Jr.