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Show j THOUGHT EDUCATION A FAILURE Oklahoma Lawyer Given Lesson by j Descendant of Cherokee Indian. Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma, Okla-homa, whose mother was a Cherokee Indian, stirred up some excitement down Oklahoma way in one .of the first lawsuits he ever tried, says the Washington Herald. The opposing counsel saw fit to call I Owen a liar. ; Owen got up and addressed himself to the court in about this language: ! "Inasmuch as the court has done j nothing to maintain its own dignity, ' and as I am amply able to take care of myself, I shall 'take this affair into my own hands." Then he turned to the lawyer across the table and remarked to him in a loud voice that he was both a liar and a blackguard, and that, furthermore, fur-thermore, he could just take that, and that, and that! Whereupon the opposing oppos-ing counsel fell to the floor as one man. Owen had used only his fist, but everybody in the court room fled, not knowing when bullets might be in the air. After the affair was over the lawyer who had called Owen a liar stood on the front steps of the courthouse and observed to a couple of friends; "I was never much in favor of educating edu-cating these Cherokee boys, anyhow!" |