Show esau WILL ROGERS S BEVERLY HILLS well all I 1 know is just what I 1 read in the papers or what I 1 happen to run onto run onto tb a queer mess Ss mi dut here ibcal in cal thornia the other A day clay you know n california is i s i made up of wy every ingrodi ent in the world Ss b but u t californians calif orn kg well these various emm emmi I 1 M grants fr from om C S t their b e i r various raaf S sections of I 1 the country have a habit babit of holding a picnic the state of iowa started it and theirs got so big they had to hold it in arizona then the other states got to holding what they called state picnics and then the counties and then the various towns all over the U S their refugees that were here would hold bold a rogers ark picnic my wife would be up at daylight so she miss that old home town one well the other day oklahoma had one and I 1 am sorry to say that it was a success I 1 had no idea there was that many rene gades had left but from the looks of things half of los angeles come flom oklahoma our governor alfalfa bill murray come all the way out here to speak to us at this gathering and they asked me to introduce him well R its s kinder of a tough job introducing an oklahoma governor you never know before you get through speaking but what he has been impeached ni while y you oil are singing his praises so I 1 think I 1 will just jot down a 3 lot of junk that I 1 used at camp meeting held in sycamore sove S 7 ove As well as I 1 can remember it it run not to wit but to length something like this this is is Ale memorial morial day established for two reasons one to commemorate the passing of our loved ones who have gone before and the other reason to try and cheer up in some way the misguided okla lion homans ians who were by a california chamber of commerce our governor or that is he was wa our governor when he left has come to bring us solace from the lio homeland meland he has come to pr pray ay with us not for divine guidance but to find in some way means to getting us back home here today are twenty five thousand souls who thought that climate was digestible dig estable and not a real estate add are here doing penance today 26 25 thousand is a lot of folks to escape the insane asylum of their native state and reach one place but forgive em governor for they know not what they were doing and they have found nothing to do since they come now governor I 1 have taken the job of introducing you liere here today for it really should be done by a scholar some learned person but I 1 got to thinking the occasion over and the audience and I 1 figured that it woul dent take a very bright man to talk to a bunch of people who had left a state like oklahoma with all its natural resources and opportunities and come clear out here to see a lemon grow and get in the movies bill murray threw down a chance to go to claremore this same w week eck they were having their annual take A bath week and he was invited and come clear to california to keep from going he wired em will come and speak but will take no part I 1 ched bill cm will come as a S spectator pec only murray sympathizes sympathises with you exiles iles he be knows wh what t it is he started one bile time to california A DAW took the wrong road at woodard an and d 02 landed in bolivia he knew what it is to be 2 out of touch wi t h civi c iza tion even eve be fore he got into t the h e oklahoma state capitol Capito iq he has been in a spanish country he knows what it is to live on Frejo iles like you all do I 1 am sorry our mayor of los angeles is not here to welcome you G vernor but he is making friends with france nothing worth while has passed assed into his lips since he got etere there and nothing worth while has passed out of his lips but you would like our governor lie he is is a regular guy but he be is from frisco frisco fasco is the place that keeps this end ot the state in the union its to california what the cherokee Chero kec nations is to oklahoma its the aristocracy of the commonwealth its the tulsa of the works so I 1 take great pleasure and pain for I 1 had a broken leg at the time I 1 take great plea suto ute and pain in introducing the only man in this entire twenty five thousand who is fortunate enough to have a ticket back to oklahoma |