Professor in Politics

POLITICAL NOTES

Professor in Politics

Colonel Oscar Winslow Hoop, head of the School of Government at the University of Tulsa, has long tried to make better citizens of his students. He preached to them that: "Graft, extravagance and inefficiency are due to the indifference of the public. The machinery of politics and party organization remains in the hands of politicians only because of the negligence of voters."

Lately he decided to give his students a practical demonstration that would convince even the dumbest. He announced to his classes that he would enter Tulsa's Democratic primaries as a candidate for Police & Fire Commissioner:

"I shall make the race with no expectation of being elected. ... I will pay my own expenses, make no promises, kiss no babies, conduct myself like a gentleman and congratulate my successful opponent."

Tulsa roared with mirth at the idea of such a campaign. Col. Hoop did no campaigning but his 150 students, delighted with the laboratory demonstration, held mass meetings for him, spoke at political rallies, got a professor of Spanish to stump a Mexican district. Last week Tulsans voted in their primaries. The vote for Police & Fire Commissioner: A. P. Bowles 3,637; Tom Munroe 4,680; O. W. Hoop 5,402.

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