The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-08-02
MEN HERE ANo THERE.

At the registration booths 10000
men and women stood in sunlight
above 100 degrees waiting at FL Reno
to get their names on the registration
lists, which will bring farms to the
lucky ones in the drawing Of the 29th
inst.
Many had travelled across the coun-
try to take their chances in the rush.
The wlthering heat at last told on
the women. Many of them tainted.
Had the competing men been of the
type American women meet frequently
in European travel, the type that bows
and smirks and is accomplished in
the fImsy polish of the drawing room,
the fallen would have been setaside
to make room for the more robust
next in line.
The men were Americans. Probab-
ly most of them had never seen the
other side of the world or had been
carried from 1t in childhood by imms
grating parents. They were not ad-
dicted to much bowling and scrap'ng
and the arts Of the dance they we're
in all probability acquired in rude or
fantastic frontier entertainments or
in frank classes Of a rural school
house winter evenings.
They were Americans. They hast't
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scious women. Those who were able
to resume their places found them
waiting. No one had attempted to
seize them. Some Of the women were
unable 90 stand up again or longer
to bear the blighting t'cze OF the sun,
Instead of bidding these give up
their places the men filled ther places
with stalwart fellows who had al
ready registered for themselves and
who then marched on in the line to
register the names of the women un-
able to register themselves. Unless
a tecbnicality defeat that generous
purpose no woman in that 10000 leg
ally qualified lost her chance to draw
a farm on the 29th
1t is no reflection on other nation
al'tles to say that such an incident
rs possible in only this country. Burke
wrote that even in his day the age
Of chivalry had gone and the one of
calculators and economists had arriv-
ed
The age Of virile magnanimity ex-
lists IN the United States, and no wo-
men know it better than the American
women who have travelled in other
countries and learned by experience
how little superficial gallantry means
when PUT to the test of essential man
liness witnessed a few days ago among
the Oklahoma "rushers7
The do these things differently in
Europe. It frequently happens that
crowds detane by accident on steam.
boat or railroad are compelled to
th,oug a too small station to get tick
cts for the next section of heir jour
ney It is not the rule for the biggest
or strongest to make way for the
smallest or weakest.
The rule ought 70 be every man
shall make himself secold 20 e1ey
woman. Women Of health and self
respect are as prompt to give way at
such q time to invalid men or cripples
or TO old women or ck ones or wo-
mer with children as right minded
men are.
But the common experience In Eu-
ropean travel Is for everybody to take
care Of himself first and let tho devil
get the rest The spectacle OF a big
fellow, not rarely in military uniform,
undinch'ngl pushing weaker human
beings Of both sexes and all ages aside
to get his ticket or his dinner first is
SO familiar as never to arouse sur
prise except among the novices abroad
In Oklahoma It was otherwise. The
men were Americans