Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-12-21
WHO'LL Be santa
CLAUS THIS YEAR
THE LINE or EMPTY STOCKINGS
Il GROWING EVERY
DAY
ARE YOU A Good FELLOW?
Only Three Days Remain In when
TO Enroll la the Ranks OF
the Good Fellows.

Good Fellows have been preserving
the fine spirit Of Christmas in Tulsa,
the past two years. And though these
Gallant efforts to avert the tragedy OF
the empty stocking, Good Fellows as
wen as those to whom they acted as
Santa Claus have awakened to mer-
rier Christmas
And the spirit OF Good Fellowship
has remained essentially personal The
business Of the chief Good Fellow IS
TO get the names OF needy children
and families, prospectively Christmas
less and the names OF the Good Eel
lows who would be Santa Claus to
them and pair them off happily
Are you a Good Fellow?
n YOU are. YOU are happy In the
work OF helping to bring good cheer
into homes less fortunate than your
own. II you have not yet enrolled
in the Good Fellowship ranks, call
phone s24 and some worthy tanly
will be assigned to you. Or II you
have clothing or anything that can De
used TO good advantage, II you Will
call and give your name, some one
will call FOR H.
The children of the South side
school proved themselves Good Eel
lows when Friday they collected al
most wagon load of provisions
which we're seat to Humane Agent A.
NJ Velch for distribution.
The Chief Good Fellow. Humane
Agent Welch, Is swamped with work
these DAYS but with 1t all he one OF
the happiest men In Tulsa.
The office OF the Humane society
is certainly busy place this month
Think Of lS0 persons being helped IN
the way OF clothing go far this month
There has been distributed In Deeem-
Der ii3 pieces OF clothing, together
with ~ pairs OF shoes and innum-
erable families have been furn shed
groceries.
The Good Fellow movement was
born 1909 in letter written by
Chicago lawyer. TO a Chicago newspa-
per. the Tribune. This is the letter:
TO the Goood Fellws Of Chicago:
Last Christmas and New Years Eve
YOU and went out FOR a good time
and spent from SO to $500 Last
Christmas morning over five thous-
and children awoke to an empty stock
iug-and bitter pain and disappoint-
ment that Santa Claus had forgotten
them. Perhaps II wasn't your fault.
We had provided for our own; we
had also reflected In passive way on
those less fortunate than our own;
bat they seemed far off, and we didn't
know where to find them. Perhaps
in the hundred and one things we
had to do some OF US didn't think OF
that heart sorrow Of the child over the
empty stocking
Now. old man, here's a chance.
have tried It for the last five years.
Just send your name and address to
the Trbune-address Santa Claus
state about how many children you
are willing to protect against grief
over that empty stocking, inclose a
2-cent stamp, and you will be fur
nished with the names, addresses, sex
and age Of that many children. It is
then up 10 YOU. You do the rest Sc
lect your own presents, spend fifty
cents or fifty dollars, and send or take
your gifts to those children on Christ
mas Eve You spend not a cent more
than YOU wish to pay-every cent goes
just where YOU want II to go. Neither
you or I get anything out OF this eX
copt the feeling that you have saved
some child from sorrow on Christmas
morning
II that is not enough for you, then
You have wasted time in reading this
1t Is not intended for you, but for
the Good Fellows of Chicago.
Perhaps q 25-cent doll or a 10-cent
tin toy wouldn't mean much to the
children YOU know, but to the child
who would find them in the other
wise empty stocking they would mean
much-thc difference between utter
disappointment and the JOY that Santa
Claus did not forget them. Here is
where YOU and ! come in. The char
table organizations attend 20 the
bread and meat. the clothes. the nee
essltles. You and the rest Of the Good
Fellows furnish the toys, the nuts.
the candies. the child's real Christmas.
Good Fellow