Volume 18 , Issue 1

NW Okie's Journey

Besides being the first issue, Volume 18 of the new year 2016, I finally did it! I sent in my ancestry DNA a few weeks ago. Now ... I'm waiting for the results to see what the majority of my ancestral makeup is. I have three more weeks to wait as they process my DNA.

Remember when Will Rogers had a newspaper column that went under the name of "Will Rogers Says." Rogers wrote those most humorous press feature of the Republican convention. We have included some of those "Will Rogers Says" in this weeks OkieLegacy Ezine/Tabloid newsletter. See some of those below:

Will Rogers Says... "A congressman is a local bandit and sent to raid National headquarters for something for his own district. If he gets enough he becomes a statesman."

Will Rogers Says: Aboard S. S. Empress of Russia, Dec. 1. -- This ocean is just as innocent looking today, just like ti hadn't done a thing. We have followed the great circle route and swung away up north.

"If we had gone ashore, I would have been telling my republican jokes to an eskimo, and I expect the Republicans wish they was with the Eskimos about now. "

This morning's wireless reports Mix better, which is good. He has given many a grown-up and all kids a thrill. In 1905 at Madison Square Garden Tom and I made our New York horseback debut with Zack Mulhall's Wild West.

"Sure glad Charley Dawes has stopped this war and I can change it into a kimono shopping tour of Japan and China. Yours, Will Rogers."

Will Rogers Says Today: Beverly Hills, Cal., Nov. 27 -- No comedian of our generation but has profited by seeing the old master. Raymond Hitchcock work. Such ease and originality. Knowing and admiring you for years, Hitchy, I believe you would like this on your headstone: "Here lies a cheerful soul who spent a lifetime creating fun for otter's. Yet in doing so he has never copied any man's methods. He lived, was loved, and he died, just "hitchy' unlike anybody."

And to make the day entirely obituary, I read of the death of Captain Cudahy, our crack navy pilot. Just three weeks ago he spent three days at my ranch, along with Secretary the Navy for Aviation Ingalls (whom he was piloting), a fine chap and a great pilot. It looks like the good ones go and us bum ones stay. Yours, Will Rogers.

Will Rogers sAys: Winslow, Arizona, Jan. 3, 1930 -- Senator Grundy is receiving republican praise for not voting yesterday on a tariff measure that he himself was interested in. His side was already nine ahead. I will withhold my applause till I see what he does when a tie comes up.

Mr Hoover is sending a democratic and a republican senator to the London show. Would have sent a progressive, but its a peace conference.

The Hearst papers are against prohibition but in favor of enforcement, while Senator Borah is for prohibition, but against enforcement. Yours, Will Rogers.

Say did you know it rained in Los Angeles? The flood is what drove me over here. Will.

Will Rogers Says: Beverly Hills, Cal., Aug 28 (1931) -- No wonder the Republicans in this country are careful to do nothing to interfere with big banking interests. Look over in England. The Labor party was in but they had no money. They get out and a different bunch in. New York and Paris banks loaned 'em a half billion dollars. Big money only goes to the party that supports big money. I am entering no crusade to end it, I am just telling you how it is. You go ahead and change it.

Good Night! Good Luck!
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