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Willie Cornelius Rogers, a former Oklahoma village schoolmaster, is pained by the unkind suggestion that multitudes of people voted for him for Congressman in 1932 under the misapprehension that he was an ex-cowboy who cracked jokes. His chief accomplishment in Washington was to shoot a hole-in-one on the Soldiers' Home golf course. He got through the 1934 and 1936 elections all right, but this year he is worried. By this time, of course, news has filtered through to the masses that the real Will Rogers was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935. What causes Willie Rogers anxiety is that there are two other Will Rogerses in the field--a Connerville doctor and an Oklahoma City draughtsman.

Last week, stimulated by Willie Rogers' political troubles, a sharp-eyed correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune went through the list of candidates in the July 12 Oklahoma primaries and discovered what amounted to a trend. Mae West, an Oklahoma City housewife, is running for Commissioner of Charities and Correction. She has eight children, is a devoted Baptist, and entered the race only after she had prayed for a considerable time and consulted her pastor. The pastor is praying for her every day.

John L. Lewis, an Oklahoma City dentist, is running for Congress. Patrick Henry, a Rush Springs cowboy, and Joe Miller, an Elk City farmer, are running for State Auditor. Others: Joe E. Brown, school superintendent in Dustin, for Secretary of State; Robert Burns, Oklahoma City lawyer, for Lieutenant Governor; Brigham Young, Oklahoma City engineer, and Wilbur Wright, Muskogee painter, for Congress; Daniel Boone, McAlester barber, and Huey Long, Oklahoma City businessman, for clerk of the Supreme Court.

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