New Nation

Seventy-seven counties has the State of Oklahoma -- Choctaw and Pushmataha, Bryan and Love, Jefferson and Garfield, Custer and Dewey, Cotton and Alfalfa, Beaver and Kingfisher, many another.

But of all these, only Major County, up on the Cimarron River near the Kansas border, failed this autumn to vote the Democratic ticket for President and Senator. Last week at Major's county seat of Fairview, which lies on the main line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Gerald Vincent Underwood, publisher, and Cass Alonzo Carr, editor of the Fairview Republican, took matters into their own hands. Announced they in their paper:

"Three States were saved from the storm: Maine, Vermont and Major. At a meeting of the people of this great State early this morning, it was unanimously decided that Major County should secede from the Union and go independent. Versing their thoughts on the surrounding counties who had let them down so ignominiously, it was decided there was absolutely no respect to be commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; Ambassador to Russia, William Allen White. To various local dignitaries went the posts of Ambassador to the U. S., Ambassador to Ethiopia, Governor General of the Philippines, Minister to Oklahoma, Minister to the Cherokee Nation, etc. etc.

P:Police last week found on a bridge over Salmon Falls River, where motorists cross from New Hampshire into Maine, a sign which read:

"You Are Now Leaving the United States."

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