Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-23
A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
Is TO BE RAISED IN TEN
DAYS TIME.
IS APPARENTLY INCREDABLE
But Ii Can BE DOnc-Thc How OF II
Creation OF Community Spirit
Where 1t Is Lacking.

The whlrlwind plan for raising
money for American institutions has
lifted the campaign from a sordic
ercise and way for the very keenest
and busiest and best business and
professional and Industrial men to
render efficient service.
This uniting Of all the betterment
forces of a city creates civic move
ment of first magnitude. challenging
the attention of chambers of COM
merce, city councils mayors and gov
ernors-as one governor declared,
1T created a community spirit where
that spirit had been lacking for Il
generation
The plan during the first two years
of its progress raised $9,44O.O00,
since that date 1t is impossible to
give totals as they run way up into
the millions. That the success of the
short-term plan is not question OF
locality has been proved by Its equal
effectiveness in cities as widely sepa-
rated of their sections as Baltimore
Pit,sburg, Syracuse. in the east; OF
tawa and Sherbrooke, in Canada;
Richmond, Chattanooga and Win
ston- Salem, in the south; Detroit,
Indianapolis Milwaukee and Chica-
go, in the central west; st. Paul and
Duluth in the north Kansas City and
Houston, i'm the southwest; Denver,
Phoenix and Spokane, in the farther
west, and Tacoma and Los Angeles on
the Pacific coast.
The essential features of the cam
paign are:
I. Concentration; very short time.
during which the best men of the city
can be held together; everything else
must be subordinated AS f. T..
House. president of the Duluth and
Iron Range railroad, says: Judging
from our experience In Duluth. | am
convinced that the short-term method
is unuuestionably the best method TO
pursue II does not give the public
a chance to become tired Of the prop
osition."
2. Cooperation. The movement
enlists a large force Of men made up
of public officials, business and pro-
fessonal and industrial men, the pull
pit and the press.
II. NJ. Beardsley eX-mayor of Kan
sas city, said: We got the attention
and interest and continued enthu-
siastic cooperation OF all our citizen
t.li
raised by any other plans yet tried
the money which we did raise
g. Organization. The plan of or
ganization makes every mans WORK
effective: prevents duplication, an
noyance. disgust, failure.
4. Science In this kind of a cam
paign money raising Is reduced to an
exact science. Given certain reason
able conditions and experienced lead
ership and enthusiastic cooperation
in all the plans by our citizenship we
can be as sure of the results at the
beginning as at the end Of the cam
paign. Tulsa is measuring up In
every particular.
Hear what j. II. Beck. secretary
Jobbers and Manufacturers assocla
tion, st. Paul, Mimi. said II look
back upon these three weeks as
about the happicst l have ever ex
perienced Was there ever a better
lot of fellows got together than we
hadg ! smile now as think Of the
anxious days, the frantic appeal for
workers, and then to have. the money
roll in as II did. 1t was glorious.
Tell the men there about 1t and tell
them to keep smiling and they will see
a finish that will astonish them.
think would rather do such work
than be president Of the U. S. A.
What effect does such campaign