Daily Oil Bulletin. The Rusk Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, June 11, 1934 Page: 4 of 4
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JOHN H FLEMISTER
EDITOR > NOTE; —Remarks by ho
writer in t his column are strictly per o
;il and are i > > l> • • i i, • I ! I i; i1 v
representing t he editorial views of this
m.-wspaper. The column is published be-
;iusr Di' its reader interest, and not to
represent the ttdltorial viewpoint of Th
( herokeean.
Of course it is nO news that there
is an oil boom at Rusk, but we ven
ture the prediction natives are going
to learn a lot about oil booms.
—o—
Old Honest Flem, the friend of
the people, will attempt to give our
reader a little low down on oil
booms. Flem has beten in enough of
them to have learned something
about booms, even with his diminu-
tive capacity for absorbing learning.
.—o—
Fact of the matter is -we are con
siderng propositioning some oil com-
panies on an idea we have in mind.
—o—
Roughly, the idea is this. We
went to Grand Saline, and they dis-
covered oil at Van, not far from
Grand Saline. We went to Kilgore,
and everyone knows it developed in-
to 1 lie biggest oil boom town of all
history. We come to Rusk, and oil
is discovered.
The idea we have in mind is get-
ting some oii company to pay us to
move to a certain town. The oil com-
pany will jump in; lease all the land;
drill a well—and they will get oil.
—o—
After they get oil, our income will
go down, and expenses will hit the
sky.
•—o—
When we came to Rusk, we were
in hopas we had seen the last of
oil booms. Fate seems to be "agin
us", as Jim Ferguson puts it.
—o—
Since the oil boom started we
have heard a numbe,. of complaints
among those who have been renting
houses, apartments and business
buildings in Rusk because landlords
have jumped rents to a startling ex-
tent.
—o—
Personally, we would do just what
the landlords are doing. We would
get it while the getting was good.
We have little sympathy for those
who are complaining of increases in
rent. Every one of them would do
the same thing. If they owned pro-
perty and had a chance to receive
more income from it, they would
certainly take it.
—o—
One's attitude concerning the rent
question depends, to a great extent,
on whether he is on the paying or
receiving end.
—o—
However, despite the fact we be-
lieve in anyone making money while
they can get it, we know of some
instances where certain landlords
over did it.
o
When a landlord bounces a ten-
ant's furniture out on the sidewalk,
or attempts to ouust a long establish-
ed business from a building, with-
out giving sufficient opportunity to
find other quarters, we feel it is
a plain example of pure, unadulter-
ated greed.
Those who have been tenants in
less prosperous times should be
given some consideration now that
the boom is on. We don't mean that
the landlord shouldn't receive all he
can get for his property, but after
all, there are certain considerations
connected with the human relations
that are of more real importance
than money.
o
Personally the writer was fortu-
nate the rent question. Our land-
lord treated u? with the utmost con-
sideration. Our rent was given a
nice boost, but even with the in-
creased rent it is still less than our
little home could have been rented
for t0 some of the new comers to
Rusk.
o
In ome ways we like an oil boom.
We like to see poor farmers make
money from lease and royalty sales.
We enjoy seeing those dreamed for
years find th means to realize those
dreams. We are pleased to meet
countless men on the streets who
have found jobs at last, and are
again in a position to buy necessi-i
ties for their families.
o
Rut, we beeom| ■ Sdisgusted with
some of the conditions we have
found in oil' fields. The bad connect-
ed with an oil boom generally is
caused by one human weakness—
greed.
o
We don't like the criminals who
flock to oil booms. We don't like the
idea of poor, ignorant farmers be-
ing fleeced out of their money by
slick tongued promoters.
o .
We don't like t0 see fee officers
become greedy and resort to legal-
ized hijacking in order to swell the
size of their own pocketbooks.
In most of the oil fields we have
been in, we have found the fee of-
ficer;. resorted to very questionable
methods in assessing and collecting
fines.
We sincerely hope that doesn't
happen in Rusk, and we don't be-
lieve it will.
Some poor farmer, whose chil-
drern have never possessed five
dollars in cash all at one time in
their lives, comes into money. He
wishes to make his children happy,
so turns large sums of money over
to them.
Fireworks Thrill World's Fair Crowds
mm*
There are alwpys women in an
oil field who are capable of taking
undue advantage of an ignorant
youth. There are always men- who
know how to get to the farmer girls
with money. After a few months of
an oil boom, the poor ignorant boys
and girls are sadder and wiser—'but
broke.
We hope that doesn't happen at
Rusk, but history repeats itself.
REUNION DATE
Drilllar.t fireworks displays are a
frequent night feature at th# new
World's Fair In Chicago. Th.lt boml
is one of the many that burst on open-
ing night. Th* buildings are, left to
This bomb J rights Federal building, Sky Ride and
Electrical group. The opening day
crowd was surprised to find the Fair 1
complete.
Tyler, June 0—Friday, June 1"), i:i
the annual reunion date of the A. W.
Orr Memorial Association, represent"
ing some two thousand of the Alumi
of the old Summer Hill Select school
which was conducted by the late
A W On' and able faculties fo|- a
illivd of a century at Omen in this-
CSmith) county. Tlie program for
the day if Hrgcly informal, but
there will lie one or two brief ad
dresses by members of the Assoc'ia
(ion who have, as many of the group
have done, distinguished themselves
in the profession and business oc
cupations of the world. However, the
day, mainly, will be spent in meeting
greeting and reminiscing of the old
school's day, betwen lfiTfi and the
first decade of this century, when
■Prof. Orr, its founder retired.
A picnic dinner will lie served on
the old campus afte,. the usual man
nor, old student-}; and friends of the
school within easy driving distance
bringin.fr bankets. Advance reprfj-ts
indicate) a large attendance.
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Daily Oil Bulletin. The Rusk Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, June 11, 1934, newspaper, June 11, 1934; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291650/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.