Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-03
ROTARY TO HOLD
A MASS MEETING
Local Club Sponsors Of Gath
ering for District Court
Room Friday Night.
WILL TALK FOOD OUTLOOK
Plans for Raising More Crops
and Conserving Them viii
Be Taken Up.

\ mass meeting OF citizens for the
purpose of going into the details OF
M FOOD supply problem as il affects
Tulsa and vicinity will be held Fri
day night at = o'clock in the district
courtroom, according 70 announce
in"nt made at Yesterdays luncheon Of
the Rotary club by President Al
Farmer The Rotary club has been
prominent In the food conservation
movement here and is standing suou-
sor for tomorrow nights meeting.
II was originally planned to hold
the meeting at Convention hall but
that building is already engaged for
the rest OF the week The district
courtroom, however will accommo-
date around one thousand persons
Comes Home To Them.
old H. G. l. hit the Rotarians
square between the eyes yesterday
when the board Of directors an
nounccd that the management OF
Hotel Tulsa had handed down an ulti-
matun 10 the effect that no more
luncheons could be served the club at
90 cents plate. In the future Is
cthts HuJ be the minimum. ii was
stated. Many OF the members oh
jected to the Increase and 1t was de-
cided to give the directors fun power
to decide the question. More than
one hundred men attend the luncheon
every Wednesday noon in the private
dining room of the hotel.
.. l.. Settle, OF meat market fame.
was I.otarlan for the day. O. A
steiner introduced as his guest CAP
tam McCrosky Of the United States
army who IS here accepting enlist
Htnt Tor the officers training camp
ar Fort Logan II. Root Captain Nc
Crosky explained the requirements
for entering the camp.
Must IL Educated.
Except for the older men" he
said, "a high school diploma is the
minimum educational requirement
The government figures that men who
enter the camp are twice az iutelli.
gent as tho average recruit for the
army and therefore they will expect
them 10 assimilate knowledge twice
as quick. In three months time they
VIII be expected to learn what IL takes
the ordinary recruit six months or a
year to acquire. Then men who 20
10 these camps will be the leaders of
the first million men that the gov
ernmcnt proposes to raise They will
hc commissioned as majors, captains.
first lcutenants and second -lieuten-
ants. Men who can pass the mental
tween tie ages OF II and a years
VIII bC accepted
Alexander Kerr. the fruit jar manu-
tacturcr, who has been on the Pacific
coast for several weeks, addressed the
club briefly He sad that business
on the coast had come back" as a
result of the stimulus given the ship
building industry.
Bacl, To the Farm.
L. S. Barton, chairman of the Tulsa
committee In charge OF the back To
the farm movement being conducted
by Rotary clubs all over the country.
reported that the committee was ar
ranging 10 enroll 4 great many high
school boys for farm work as soon as
the school semester Is ended Much
care will be given TO placing the bows
where their work and environments
will bc the best
Ira Brooks barber member. was the
principal speaker of the luncheon. He
gave an address that was both anus
ing and educational He traced the
history of the barber back for 400
years
THE BARRIERS" he said. were the
FIRST surgeons. Bleeding people was
once one OF their duties The sign of
white pole strcaked with blood.
was then adopted as their insignia
and IL has remained their trademark
ever Sin,e.'
Colleges" Are n Menace.
He severely ccusured the modern
barber colleges" claiming that they
put students thru the mill" i'm a few
weeks time and invariably turned out
an inferior class II artisans Sanitary
laws ion many states practically nut
tho colleges out of business. he said.
but there is no such law I'm oklahoma.
He told of new dJudruff cure
mat really cures and cited Instances
of local mcr whom it had been used
ON successfully
Since joining tho Rotary club I
have tried To- live mp To- u, motto:
io pro fits most who serves best
and ] find that it pays" said Brooks.
IEM pEQ NEMI DAMlIO HAn