Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-11-29
SECRETARY IS ENTHUSIASTIC
SAYS SPIRIT HERE Is THE SAME
THAT BUILT W WESTERN
CANADA.
IS TIE BIC OPPORTUNITY
The Dry Farming Congress Is Tulsa's
Opportunity and Tulsa Cannot
Afford to Overlook H.

"Should any one ask me how it is
possible for metropolitan city OF
beautiful homes, prosperous business
houses ana promising industries to
rise as it Were in few months from
q mere village, ] would say; Through
the Spirit Of Tulsa said John 7.
Burns, the executive secretary-treas-
urer Of the International Dry Farming
congress at the Tulsa Hotel last even
ing.
1T has been said to me that oil
built Tulsa. We'll, oil may have had
something to do with it-but without
good team work few games are won.
1t has taken but "a hours association
with the splendid leaders Of your
financial and commercial circles to
decide what built Tulsa The spirit
of your people-the backing of sem
timental belief in futures with real
money, and what is better, real en-
thusiasm and energy well directed.
1T is the same spirit which is
making western Canada great in ev-
cry sense of the word. Some mistake
It for the booster spirit It's more
than that It's an indefinabfe. osy-
Geological something which goes be-
yond boosting in the common accep-
tance of the term, for | have been in
many places where boosting Is
common practice, but where the line
between the booster and the man who
really furnishes the slnews Of war Is
very marked.
Il cannot help speaking of Canada
ard Tulsa in the same breath. The
western provinces are growing at
about your speed The city OF Cal
gary, IN Alberta, is increasing twelve
thousand year. Lethbridge in
southern Alberta, has grown from a
village seven years ago with town
marshal and d hand engine fire de-
partment to a municipality which
spent million and a quarter dollars
this year in public improvements. How
was il accomplished Just as it held
the greatest agricultural congress the
world has ever known-by doing II.
IT'S easy enough to understand
after one has met the men Of Loth-
bridge. They stand together in all
matters of progress and welfare as
thoroughly as if they were Of one
political belief one religion or one
blood.
Think OF city Of twelve thous-
and people asking the whole world
t9 come to It for instruction and win
ming out on It's plans. mink Of
twelve thousand people feeding and
sleeping fully as many more strangers
for a week. 1t wasn't the size OF the
corporate limits nor the number of
people in the citizenship, but the spirit
that did it. That city and all It's sis
ter cities will grow by dynamic force
generated within their own circles.
TITS not that Canada is any bet
ter than any other spot. nor that its
inducements are so far beyond what
other districts have to offer. but It's
the spirit of western Canada that has
taken hold of the thousands who are
pouring in there
you have the same thing in Tul-
sa 1t is this very evidence of your
local strength that gets into ones
blood after being here few hours
and 1t leads me to believe that II the
International congress comes to Tulsa,
It will be the greatest in the history
Of the movement
"The hour that the contract 10 sign
ed with your Commercial club, the
staff OF the congress. trained in It's
work. will be ordered here and the
International officers will begin work
for the year. The library and other
permanent property of the congress.
full car load, will be rushed by fast
freight.
The monthly magazine, the only
publication of its kind in the world,
will go out with a Tulsa date line
next month. The 350-page handbook
which will reach twenty-five thousand
students. will be issued here. The
press bureau which last year secured
one hundred thousand columns OF
publicity fer Lethbridge and better
farming movement, will begin It's
work on the first of the year, at
which time the Oklahoma board of
control will have its plans. dates, and
the magnitude OF its work decided
upon, and the fight for low railroad
rates and work of securing exhibits
from the nations of the world and
from the states will have begun.
Canadians have already announced
their plans. The four western pro-
vincial governments will send splendid