Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-28


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booklet of special interest to I'll
can be obtained by writing to the
larger letters we come spon this, "F.
NJ. Wooden, Mayor" Then in letters
n little smaller-becaus what is an
architect ?-we come upon. -. w.
Hawk, Architect" Then in letters
just as big as the name Of the archi-
tect we come upon, "T. O'Keefe, Con
tractor, October 9, 1915" In Will
liamsburg is the site of the old Raj
eigh tavern. The Raleigh tavern is
not remarkable for much except that
"A lot of men used to live there when
they acme to the sessions of the Vir-
ginia general assembly; among them
were George Washington and Richard
Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, and
Thomas Jefferson and John Mason,
and their friends; four or five presi-
dents of the United States used to love
Raleigh tavern. One day Mrs. Albert
and the boys and | were going through
that part of Virginia and one of the
boys directed our attention to the
great tablet on the building which
now occupies the same site. 1t reads,
This was the site of Raleigh tavern.
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY
THE SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAN
DANES daughter and applause.)
And today ! though that Andrew had
been graduated to the company of Mr.
Washington and Mr.. Jefferson and Mr..
Henry.
Books Inadequate.
Well, when you get past the corner
stone you can see the library. Uaugh-
teri feel like saying of the library
what the Dutchman said of the lower
berth, at is wide and high and plenty
of air" And there are in it eight
thousand books. A woman of the
town, just a woman. gave to them
eighteen hundred books for children.
And this day, by some chance. was the
day on which thirteen hundred Of
them, being in place, were thrown
open to children. As I contemplate
the strange fact that thirteen hundred
books, the gift Of a single citizen, con-
stitute about a third of the whole
number of books with which you have
endowed the library, or had endowed,
| could not but be struck with the fact
that the library is, after ALL the uni
versity of the people. (Laughter.)
T | knew a boy who could not go to
Vollege. He was the son of super
intendent of schools. He had a pretty
hard time getting an education. His
father had an income of $4,000. He
sent the first three boys to college, but
not the fourth. The earnings Of the
fourth boy were needed, so he went
into newspaper work at night. In the
daytime he went to college, in the
afternoon he played fullback, in the
evening he went to law school, and at
night he went to work for news
paper. This lasted about six months,
then the doctor forbade him, as he left
the hospital, to keep to more than
one of these four occupations. He
chose the only one open to him, all
circumstances being considered-work
upon the newspaper. After a year he
discovered that the beginning of his
education was n mere aggravation. So
he set out alone, and almost unaided,
as he thought to obtain college edu-
cation. He correlated the courses of
study of three great universities and
took from them their major credits,
then for seven years he went around
the world getting an education out of
textbooks, chosen ont according to
their authors, but according to their
size, because they must go into his
pockets. At the end of the seventh
year he felt that his course was COM
pleted. He had made two or three
rather rich discoveries, one of them
was that al 1.-The world was in a con-
spiracy to give him an education; an
other was that every book he needed
for that course he was able to get,
free Of cost, in the great public library
of his home town. A few years after
ward he went back to the same uni
versity which he had left so expedi-
tiously, lecturer. / do not believe it
is given to many men to know the
pride that came to him that day, but
know, because | know you will under
stand, | was that boy. (Applause.)
And my heart aches when think that
lICTe are DOlS WHO SIdHu mere III i Ill
sa, rich, young, valiant Tulsa, tonight
where stood in 1895, and they haven't
my chance.
Field of Recreation.
After education it will seem comes
recreation. Well, we are pretty keen
for recreation. We have made a be-
ginnig, an dit is something more than
a beginning, it is a good running
start. But my! how much farther we
have yet to go. Here is city with a
few playgrounds-five-and some
equipment in them, and there is some
sense of disappointment because the
equipment is not more used. wonder
if you know what a playground is? 1t
is place wher they have as little
equipment as possible. You cannot
make a child play with equipment.
Have you so soon forgotten what hap
pened to your own babies at Christ
mas7 If ever there was a day on
which a baby squalled its head of it
was Christmas. And the reason was,