Will Rogers Quotes
When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
Ketchum, Richard M. Will Rogers: His Life and His Times. American Heritage Publishing Co., 1973.
This veiled endorsement of violence against immigrants is typical of Edwards whose show is funded by notorious hate groups. His knowledge of history leaves much to be desired. America was not accepted as a First World power for quite a while—especially by the First World nations of Europe. In 1900 Argentina was a richer country than the United States. The great growth in American wealth, culture and power took place in the 20th century with the help of large immigrations of the “dregs of Europe” and elsewhere. The Irish, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese, Croations, Mexicans were all immigrants from other than the First World yet it was they who helped make America a First World nation.
It was on his land that the first California Gold was discovered. In one of the great ironies, the California Star stopped publishing 4 days later. The staff had all run off to try and find gold.
At the time there were two demographic changes taking place. In the developed countries there was a very large increase in the percentage of the population over the age of 65. In the less developed nations the proportions of young people was burgeoning.
In one of the strangest anomalies of history, Christian Armenians became demographically outnumbered in their own home country, Armenia and then they became viciously discriminated against by the Muslim Turks.
Howard was one of the first people to recognize the migration from the country to the cities brought about by the Industrial Revolution and then suggest solutions. He advocated planned suburban communities that had some elements of the country, but allowed a density of people to function in an industrial economy. He called them “Garden Cities”. Forest Hills in New York and other American planned communities were much influenced by his thinking as were many other new communities since.
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.
