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

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to ask his advice, for not only is the
banker the object of such requests,
but he likes it, and he advises his GUS
toners always to find the thing they
want to buy in the city which was so
kind to him. More and more you will
see flowing down this little line, trade
into the mother city. Well, that
brings us to the next rule, that trade
channels tend constantly to deepen
with use and to fill up with disuse.
Whenever the merchant desiring to
buy at wholesale out of the normal
trade territory Of Tulsa, goes round
it to a nearby competitive city, you
are deepening the trade channels into
that other city and forfeiting advan-
tage for Tulsa.
To the big Town"
Someone will say, This cannot
much" Let me illustrate what it
means. On the train coming up, |
noticed a good general store, the kind
of general store that turns over its
stock five times year. This store
has prospered with cotton at present
prices; the family proposed to do some
buying. Father believes in the COM
mission form Of government and calls
in mother and the three children.
What shall we buy? Well, mother
chooses, as is the fashion of mothers
all over the world, something that the
whole family can enjoy; she wants a
sideboard. Daughter asks for new
party dress and mother thinks she
ought to have it, because quite unex-
pectedly she passed through the high
school this year The boy asks for a
bicycle, and the mother thinks he
ought to have that, because then he
may study better N the high school
next year The baby is to go along.
They all purpose to do this buying in
Tulsa but father objects. Don't you
want the old man to go along. eh?"
"Yes, aren't you going?" well, |
can't if you go to Tulsa; | want to
buy bill of goods when ! make this
trip to help pay the expenses; how
would you like to go on through to the
big town"
Someone will say that does not hap
pen often; if it happens, once a year,
it has happened too NIGHTLY often for
the house of Tulsa. 1t happens when
ever the general store needs drugs or
hats and caps or shoes or millinery.
Do you not see that it is an act of
mere business farsight, for the retail
merchant in Tulsa to cooperate with
the wholesaler to develop rounded
wholesale trade?
Now, then. we come to manufactur-
ing and somebody will say, "That is
what | want to hear about, because
what the town needs is more fac
tories" Laughter) Oh, well, if
you grow impatient with the bromides,
you will be impatient most of the
time. What the town needs is more
factories everywhere. So does Beth
lehem need more factories. Bethle-
hem, you know, is the seat of great
steel plant; if we could remove it to
Tulsa, the people in this audience
would not wait to hear any more lee
lures about the future of Tulsa. They
would be entirely content, vet every
morning there come into Bethlehem
from the east nine thousand adult
male wage -earners who would rather
live in Easton than Bethlehem. And
every night there go home to Allen
town, to the westward, from nine to
ten thousand more adult male wage
earners who would rather take the
ride on the street car than endure
Bethlehem. The eighteen thousand
of them represent 10000 of potntial
population of the city Of Bethlehem.
Do YOU think factories make city?
There is a great city-in Gods pur-
pose it was great-in Massachusetts,.
1t is called Fall River; it is, perhaps,
the prize of all the students horrible
examples. Filled, it is, with factories,
but you would not endure it an hour.
No More Needed-NOw.
Journey through New England
from town to town; see the little vii
lage that has been gathered around
the single mill, and ask yourselves if
factories make cities Perhaps the
worst possible thing that could hap
pen to Tulsa would be that the prayer
of some of her leading men should be
granted and that great factories
should be brought to her now. Tulsa
does not need more factories; she
needs to learn to take care of the fac
tories she already possesses.
The range of manufacturing prod
utcs here is very broad. We have a
smelter within our metropolitan dis
trict; We make glass jars and lamp
globes; then we have a great steel
rolling mill; we manufacture wash
ing machines to make the clothes
clean, and oil tanks to make them
dirty. We have gas engines here, oil
field steel tools, packing tools and
cannons. We have an Independent
packing plant and we make some fur
niture; we manufacture cottonseed
oil. and in city whose fields are
white at the harvest time with cotton,
we have one measly, puny, imbecilic
little cotton gin. But if we are weak
on cotton gins, we make a great guam
tity of soft drinks. Laughter.) We
have an automobile assembling plant
and are manufacturing truck beds,
bodies and trailers, and it is destined
to grow much more rapidly than some
of us may realize. We make an ex-
cellent insect powder; we manufac-
ture harness; we make cement blocks
and sewer tiles, bricks and vitrified
bricks; we have tinshop and plan
;pp mill and we map,,factur flour