The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-06-02
OKLAHOMA MAY
WELL Be PROUD.
Walter StemmOnS Adds, However
That State Harms Herself By
Not Advertising
HE CITES COBURN OF KANSAS
Speaker Al Ad Club Dinner Pre-
SSntS Array OF Facts That
Fairly AStOund

Walter Stcmmnns II clever chap.
lie IL editor Of the College Publica
tions at the A. x VI. college at still
water. he was the speaker ut the
weekly luncheon Of the oklahoma city
Advertising club TODAY. His subject
had to do with the telling Of the great
we'll Us to the world at lurge. The
speech was one NJ the most Informative
aud comprehensive that II has been the
pleasure of the club to listen TO-
Mr. Stemmon, said In part;
"rhr greatest dynamic force In the
world today * publicity Without 1t
Belgium would lmyc starved; without
It corruption would run riot In every
American city; without II Billy sun
day would be- Hn ltlnerant preacher or
n superanuatcd baseball player. The
titanic error of the great European
war was when Kitchener put muzzlc
on the English press Germany real
ized the power " public sentiment AZ
crystalll2ed by the printed line aud
she took the American newspaper men
from prison and gave them escort
through the battle zones Wilhelm
waited for Bcrnstorfs report of Amer
team newspaper comments on the lIlsl.
lluiia disaster before framing his re-
ply to Wilson. The bright, white lime
light brought the golden smile 10 ne
grO's face and made the name " m
Oklahoma cOwhuy household word
throughout the nntlOn. Advertising Is
the y. u. s., the lifrhOat and the res
cue ship for sinking business II YOU
are slow NJ speech aud ~ n slow ton
que you must get Aaron tu talk for
you"
"Some months ago =. u. Comrn. Il
shrcwd old farmer resigned as secrp
tary " the Kansas board Of agricul-
ture. Corporations sent him flatter
lng offers. Railroads wanted him.
Agricultural colleges offered him po-
sltlons. lie was discussed as a possl-
bility for president OF oklahoma Agri.
enlturuI and Mechanical College He
could have had his choice OF n great
number and variety OF jobs. but the
man who put the Kan" In Kansas had
retired Secretary Coburn had fin,
ishcd his work.
"Oklnhomn has never had a COburn.
There are fncts abOut Oklahoma that
the world does not know that OKLA.
homans do not know. II our Eastern
friends were asked 10 epltomlze Wcs
tern prosperity they would probably
do II with a shcnf ~ Kansas wheat,
hut even many Oklahomaus do not
know that In lDl3. the last year for
which | have thoroughly reliable stn
tistics for comparison. the mineral
output ~ Oklahoma would have
bought the Kansas wheat crop with
enough money left over IN purchase
the ships 10 carry the wheat t0 Rel
gium. IN the same year Oklahoma
raised two bushels Of corn where
Kansas grew one. Kansas raises no
cotton, yet In 1912 the farm value of
the Oklahoma cotton crop was but
Sll,OOOOO0 short Of the farm value Of
the Kansas wheat crop The 1912 ok.
lnhoma cotton crop, II sold December
that year, would have put enough mo.
ney IN the hank to buy the entire out.
put Of corn, oats, rye barley. buck
wheat and hay that Kansas produced
IN 1919
IT IL not easy to attempt 10 con.
dense into single paragraph state
ment NJ the wonderful resources OF
Oklahoma aud their development
Some idea ~ conditions may be- gain.
ed by reference to the government
census reports recently issued. where
II is shown that during the past ten
years, among the sixteen stRtes repre-
scented at the Southern Commercial
Congress, Oklahoma ranks as fol
lows:
First In percentage of Increase of
population of the state. 40 per cent
First IN percentage of Increase Of
population Of two chief cities okla
homa city having $40 per cent, aud
MuskOgee IN per cent.
First In percentage " Increase of
value Of farm crops, 2I2 per cent
First In percentage of lncrense Of
wheat raised, M per cent.
First In percentage Of Increase of
cotton raised, 100 per cent.
First III percentage Of rallroat
mileage, lA per cent.
First In percentage Of Increase IN
lumber cut, 90l per cent
First IN percentage Of lncrense n
corn raised, n2l per cent
First IN percentage of Increase /,
bank deposits, 1923 per cent.
First among the southern states n
the amount Of petroleum produce,
during the four years.
First In the amount Of natural gai
In sight.
First in the total amount Of avail
able fuel.
First In the total amount Of as
phalt..
"Flrst in the total amount OF glasi
sand.
First in the total amount Of gyp
sum. '
First in the amount Of salt.
First In the total amount Of min
eral products.
First In the total amount OF when
raised.
And first In the number Of acre
OF fertile soil lying idle.
III You exclude Texas our neighbo
state on the South, with an area near
ly four times our own, aud Missouri
with an area nearly as large and witt
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