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

And because he could not speak they
watched him as he went into his gray
blue blouse reaching for something
Then the anti Catholic boy opened his
blouse, for the blood ran from his hip
while he did it, and put in his hand
the crucifix reached after by the
boche. With last look he fell back.
A Sublime Presence.
Do you not know that boy when he
comes back to the United States is
/ going TO teach us a new religious de-
yotion? Do you not know that he is
going to teach US n new religious sim
plicity? | am an avowed Christian.
Some of you are Jews; if You are good
Jews. you are mighty good citizens,
/ but for the rest of Us, let me say this,
you profess a very interesting faith,
which is that every word have spok
en- this night has been heard by anoth-
er. Whether you like it or not, some
one is going to walk home with you
10 the privacy Of your chamber; and
now in his name the world is turning
back to the greater values Of life.
! Will Tulsa turn back and turn for
ward with it? | do not know.
Now, as a conclusion of it all. |
bring you a definite program of things
which | would do. or try to do, or
pray for strength to help to do, if |
lived in Tulsa. Here is a little pre-
liminary to it. and then the program
itself. and when that has been spread
out before you, the long, long study is
over.
Tulsa presents some of the prob
lens and all of the opportunities of aa
city designed to grow rapidly and al
ready growing rapidly. 1t is at a
stage Of growth as plastic as the child
of II. Ahead of it, through the next
ten years, are struggles very like
those of adolescence. In health. in
resource, in straight limbed growth so
Tar 1t has wondrous start. Men and
women determined to serve it as they
serve their business can save it from
a great array of scars, Of malforma-
tions, OF crippled arms and legs. of
business difficulties. of choked breath
Ing. In the city sense, these bodily
diseases are often visualzed as bad
street plating, wrong location of pub
lie buildings, unsafe business and in
dustrial blocks, residence districts, i'll
smelling and diseased. But there are
other bodily diseases as virulent which
are not so easy TO visualize; a scheme
of city life-namely, a failure to un-
derstand the blessings of wholesome
play; a disregard of the value far
above more practical gains of the
beauty that lies in architecture, in mu-
sic. in fellowship, in religion. Any
city, is 1t ever truly rich, when it is
poor in the blessings of the soul? Tul-
sa realizes this truth. There are hun
dreds of evidences that she does, and
one of these evidences is an auditorium,
and IN that auditorium is a graf or
gan.
Around the World.
As an advertiser of Tulsa, | have
gone around the world; one of the
stories | have loved most to tell. is
that OF an institution called the COM
munity sing" And to the people of
Canada. TO the people of the antipo-
des. TO Englishman and to German, |
have told of the great congregations
OF the humble and the rich together
the old, old airs that everybody loved.
hearing the rich. warmly colored SYM
phonies of Beethoven. and rising at
the close of each Sunday afternoon
program. shoulder to shoulder. welded
into a great patriotic whole singing,
My Country, This OF Thee, Sweet
Land of Liberty" Isn't it Just as well
that while l told that story | did not
know the truth; for in Tulsa there has
been no such gathering for year. A
great organ builded through the devo-
ton and the sacrifice of woman has
been bought in at a bargain sale as
the dealer in mortgages sells the
farm. The great organ almost un-
limited in the potentialities of its ben
efactions. of its ministrations of beau
ty into the lives of the people stands
there dumb and we administer a great
civic asset, as though it were a NOV
ing picture house. And | think, as |
dwell upon it, of the woman whose
$4,000 made it possible. whose conse-
Grafton TO richnes sof life made it her
dream, whose organizing ability and
persistence brought the dream into
reality; and then | think of the city
so overwhelmingly rich, so happy in
the pouring of gold into its hands, so
content with the smell of oil, so over
whelmed by oil decentralization that
the building stands bleak and empty
and the pipes of the organ are nesting
places for bats.
But there are other bodily diseases
as virulent which are not so easy 10
visualize: a scheme of city life, mainly
to advantage the rich, failure to
understand the blessings of whole
some play, a disregard of the value
far above more practihal gains of the
beauties that lie in music, in fellow
ship, in religion.
Tulsa realizes this truth; there are
hundreds of evidences that she does.
If now she would go above and be-
yond any other city we have ever
studied, let her men and women give
10 her the great benefaction of plan
ming her further growth at this early
stage of her life. Other cities have
planned, but none of them until thou
sands of mistakes have been made be-
yond those which Tulsa has made.
The difference corresponds to that be.
tween the training of the youth and
the training of the man. In grace OF
body, in strength of mind, in nobility
of soil, the pupil is set through all the