The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-25

IT HERE is nothing more snobblSh
and un-American than the SneerS
that We hear continually directed
at the new rich
Every new fortune. honestly won, IS a
new vlndica,lon OF our democracy that
gives opportunity to everyone instead
OF privileges to the few II should I'LL
rs with loy that in this country OF ours
no man needs stay humble or poor II he
has intelligence and energy and IS VIII
ing to work. and We should have moth
ing but admiration for the man who
has had in himself the pluck and abil-
! lty 10 achieve success.
| For while any fool or wcakling may
inherit fortune. It takes man who
has sense and grit and courage 10 make
one
Pcrhap, the dollar mark may not he
'he romantic symbol OF achievement;
hut u j, the trademark Of practical sue
cess Money talks when It comes TO eS
timatlng the value oi a mans work. II,
mus, needs he good work when the
world &, willing TO pay out big sums OF
money lur II
The new rich man at whom fools and
parasites smile contemptuouSy may
lack polish and drawing room man
ncr,. bu, he has proven that he has IN
/ him the brains and the Drawn, and the
/ backbone that raised man up on his hind
feet and has made him 'hc docr ot
things since the world began. His
money may be so new It is shiny but
|r shine, with the blood and 'wea, ot
/ II, getting, and as Tor romance why.
there are no stories OF adventure, ol
tragedy. ot love. oi luck. so thrilling
and interesting aS those that the self
made man could tell YOU It he would
MI oi which bring, me to the relat.
/ ing OF this little incident which really
I fhurrrrrt ,Nr Other night
~ a dinner table some one men
toned BLANK whose recently organized
chain OF cheap stores have turned him
from \ petty shop keeper into mil.
lonaifc
Someone pointed on, his wife to mc
at the opera the other night said a
beautiful and atiNoCta,ic woman sCorn'
fully "Shc !, the most hla,an, example
yru ever saw oi the new rich Makes \
DISPLAY oi her wealth that Is vulgar
. iou should have seen her iat ard
pulgv and middle aged. hut SwaIhrl
m lace ,ha, had been the treasure oi a
queen. and plauetcd over with dla
mond, and pearl, until 'h, looked Ike
a jewellers display window amused
myself hy trying TO compute the value
oi her costume and estimated lha,
she was worth ahou, SlOOOnn aS ,hc
,a' there which suppose i, ahou, the
way her husband would figure hcr M
added the woman. with a suceting lnIl.
laugh
\ man who had hccu listening 10 the
hitter speech turned ,N the woman with
nm apologies, little how
~ suppose" he said. chat Mr.
. Blank doe uycfifc, ,uprn.c tho
sight vt iat old woman. With het
work knrued hand, covered with a
king, ransom IN Jewels, Is ptotesquc
hut when ! ZEE Mr., blank re,thng in
an her rncry with lov as atileN a. =
child, at patty ! don't isel like
laughing 'cel IKE taxing uii NV VA,
before 'he spectacle ri something ,ha,
I, sacred and holy
'lof I have known the BLANK, inr
man, Nc1r, know their story
know that hst imported gowns. her SSnI
hats her pigeon blood tuh,c, and ca
hu,hcN rn,ral,, her hVor, pearl, and
diamond, ar, 'he realization " man.
dttam Jomr true and his effort tn pat
back IN 4 woman the sacrifices she ha,
made ior him
When Blank and M, wife were mar
ticd they were az poor a. poverty itself
lie was a $40 a.weck clerk in a little
East Side store aud, they lived in tNr
rooms and Mr., Blank cooked NJ, food
and washed his ,lc,hc, AMI walked N,
ioles of hei shoe, hunting the place.
D &c ,uu could b, food ,hcapcu
n, intt,i.l', economies they ,a,tU