Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-24
NOTHING ROUGH AT
"R0UGH|NG" CAMP
Tulsa Boys Are Taught How
to Serve God and Their
Country.
TWENTY NOW ENJOY OUTING
Secretaries Buchner and Burk-
holder Contribute to the
Camps Success.
TWENTY NOW ENJOY OUTING
(By MARGARET MURPHY

fine $3.50 p. IN.
Scene-Avery farm seven miles
east of town by the side Of sociable
little creek and close to flowing
spring.
Staging-The Living Flag" at
tached to ridgepole of an Sx12 tent,
to the cnresses Of Mudjekeewis-thc
west wind Back of 1t. looking down
in loving approval of the whole scene
and attended by the ever -watchful
Jupiter, drifts the young moon, WITH
the old moon In her arms"
In the foreground. "A huge pile o.
burning logs, sweet with the sweet
ness of burning hickory and redbud
and sending up a shower of sparks
that rise and hover and scatter like
a swarm of golden bees. Every now
and then hoot owl.
Twcnty-Count 'Em.
And-twenty boys out under the
stars of God
off to one side hrc the dying EN-
bers of charcoal fire where the twen-
ty are learning camp cookery and the
ability, If the occasion should arise
to eat gravy and flapjacks with a
clam shell and a can opener. Inside
the tent are twenty blankets spread
side by side in the daytime but apt
to be carried into the open at night
Most OF the twenty prefer to sleep on
the outside, and even snuffling
wandering, mooing COW, I'm told
does not disturb their young and
heaithful slumber.
Buchncr Active.
AS the night grows older and the
rest of the stars follow the lead of
Jupiter, twenty boys lie flat on tneIr
backs while they have an astronomy
lesson, lead by G. E. Buchner who
has come out from town for a play
and n walk with the boys. First t;c
Big Dipper, that A. h. c. of young
astronomers, is sighted, then Coron.,
the Pleiades, the Swan and Venus.
by this time the imagination of youth
Is unleashed and twenty boys are
willing to swear that they can see
Saturn whirling in his seven rings
like the giddiest dervish of them all.
BY ana bye there is glove" ex-
hibition between two diminutive
hopes" disclosing the reason for the
hopes. Jimmy" who climbed to the
toT of a tall, tall sycamore growing on
the bank of the creek. ito see the
Catholic church spires" is called forth
to exhibit his scars of battle. Jimmy
fell out of the sycamore.
Eats! Eots! Eats!
Two boys are sent over to the motor
car which came from town, osten-
sibly to get cushions, but In reality
(shreiks of delighO a huge freezer
full Of strawberry ice cream and sew
eral bags of. cakes. Recess
And then the evenings talk by Mr..
puchner As he talks about THE
Boy and the War" pointing out the
boys many opportunities to serve his
country and his God, the night grows
cooler and the boys draw nearer 10
the fire. Some of them grow wide
eyed and thoughtful and some of them
grow sleepy. For boys temperaments
vary. And when the talk is over two
boys are found sound asleep, one on
q boxing glove and one on a stone.
Burkholdcr Busy.
In charge of all this magnificence
is Il. S. Burkholder, boys work
secretary of the Y. NJ. C. A., who is,
according to C. f. Buchner, 'just
boy grown tall" Mr. Buchner de-
clares that after Mr.. Burkholder has