Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-09-14

would have found some of the Same
Young men as chiefs oI departments,
battling with the responsibilities of
such places of labor would have
seen some Of the young men nj desks
in banks and I'm offices in banks and
In Offices Of the big corporauous
would have seen printers i'm their
oyorals, pounding the Huoyp,s or
prcs5meu Contoudiug with ID faulty
mS fountain or cuttin, an oycrlay
for o. defective cut
/ would have seen MESSENGER boys
hurry iuF uu their wheels with tuDr
messages, or crying their papers ON
tho Streets
but up here it was Hello, ToW"
'Hb there, JeU.
It, Ha- tta real democracy whore
men meet each other ON nigh plane
rather than ON u low plane.
Through the corridors If The big
building echoed melody from "a ph1-
uograpn while a fellow was h4m-
mering away something quick and
lively on a piano. And ! didn't hear
anyone calling to sinners that o.
was time 10 repent. Howbcit, thoy
rightly Call it the Young Mems Chris
tian association.
This is not said IN spirit Of scot
fling or irreyerence. II is a picture of
the mind of an outsider who is try
ing TO adjust himself to a condition
that is entirely new TO hm-who is
clinging to his outside view while the
inside Of the thing is forcing itself
upon him.
1t was a rOllcking frolic-whole-
some, ruddy, strong, clean noise. Ef-
ieminacy Don't 20 up around the
4 ,lFt Ina o.. 4
that kind. You'u think Won have
stepped from a pink tea into a hat
terry Of those that are breathing life
into acres of pounding machinery.
Monday night | made the rounds Of
the building again. Down IN the gym
moer than half a hundred young men
In bare arms and limbs were vaIlting
the elephant" D." This was followed
by a course in calesthenics to a live
ly march accompaniment. II was the
/ real goods.
Chief of Police Noble. with about a
score Of his pecked men We're looking
on. There are some husky athletes i'm
that crowd of officers. but none of
them would be willing to test his ON
durance with those fellows in tho
gym. They were frank to admit II
Up in the educational department
classes were at work. There we're
classes in mathematics and CONNER
cial law-classes in mechanical draw
ing and engineering-cIas sses in star-
ography and typewriting. In the a.
sembly room an expert was daIivor-
ing an illustrated lecture an ad,ortis
ing. He was pounding common eo,,.o
advertising into quite a crowd of men
who are spending large sums I'm n,,h-
/ licty Tuesday at noon / was tho
guest at the directors luncheon r.
Eleven of the busiest business mon
in Houston, men OF large affairs bad
| gathered for this weekly confarenca
to discuss the financial side of tbo
| Y. NJ. c. A.. There are fourteen
directors in addition TO tho ganoroi
secretary. All save three u,ora ~,
| hand promptly MT 12:3O. one of tl,a
! directors was out OF the citv anothar
was serving on a Jury. while anotber
was sick. That was the sole reason
why there was not a fun attendonce
Those men were facing tho financial
| problems, for the institution is not
self-sustaining. any more than is the
| college. 1t never ha sheen and never
will be. II would be n rich mans
club II It was, those men. every one Of
whom had ben digging deem into his
own jeans. were there looking over
the names Of men in Houston who
are able to dig and they were nra-
pairing TO go after them and show
| them why they should dig.
! singled out one of the men who
is the heaviest giver Of them ali and
asked him what he got out OF his
giving. 81 get a great deal more out
Of 1t than | give" was his ouick re-
sponse They find after they have
struggled in the gamo OF frenzied