Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-28
Taxes in Tulsa Too Low Says Albert

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at night, if you get in before morning,
you look up one street and see as one
might see in Paris, Kentucky, big
sign, Welcome" (Laughter) and
when the morning comes and the
newsboys have wakened you with their
sibllant, mellifluous cries, you look
out and find your way from place to
place by asking the names Of the
streets. applause and laughter.)
we are a very young city but not
too young TO have outgrown the high
ways we have downtown. And if you
have friends who own automobiles
as / have-you will wait an eternal
sight longer TO get driven around
town in their cars than il would take
you to walk
We are modern in many respects /:
We are beginning to see the great
light of truth that women are people.
This is a very revolutionary thing.
we do not yet quite understand il in
Oklahoma because they are people
only when 1t comes TO elections about
the school system. The city is rich
in the character and the service rem
dere d by its women's clubs. but we
enter the small town category every
Saturday at about half past six in
the evening. Then we crowd our
streets and edge our way in and out
and walk into the stores pretending
TO look for bargains, and hurry home
afraid to be caught out after half
past ten. Uaughter.)
Street Advertising.
We have a thrifty streak in US in
our personality here. We are not too
proud TO save money and so whenever
we come TO crossing concerning
which automobiles might have any
doubt, we erect sign in the middle
OF the intersection marked Turn to
the right, COS" daughter.
No long ago l was studying the
beautiful little town of Florence, in
Alabama, which is just as important
to the people of Florence as Tulsa is
to you. We were being driven around
the city, the commissioners and |. We
passed a sprinkling cart painted
beautiful canary yellow. On the side
Of it was an advertisement of "Eazit
at Jones' Drug store" The president
of the board of commissioners was
Mr.. Anderson, and every now and
then in the heat of the midsummer
day in Alabama he would remove his
hat to wipe the moisture off his "door
knob" Uaughter.) I asked him
what Ear was, and he said. 1T is
good for anything that ails you" So
that night when l was explaining
what | saw in Florence to the people
of Florence, | said that if "Eazit"
was good for anything that ails you,
and | were in Mr.. Anderson's place,
/ should use it for a hair restorer.
Laughter)
The point is that Florence is no
model for Tulsa when it comes to SELL
ing space in the middle of its streets
for advertising purposes, and tho we
may be smitten with poverty here in
Tulsa, we are surely rich enough to
put modern points of direction in the
middle of our street intersections
without requiring someone to erect
them there as advertising.
Too Many Grade Crossings.
We have both kinds of grade cross
ings; above grade and below grade.
We have put the above grade cross
ings out where we live because it
doesn't matter if we get killed while
at work. And as we get out of the
train and start toward the loved ones
at home waiting. to welcome US, we
dodge first the train of one system,
then the train of an interurban and
then the trains of third system, all I
on the street level in the most unfor-
tunate way. (Laughter.)
We have monument; somebody |
gave it to us. (Laughter.) We have
a home for the aged and an industrial
home; someone gave US those. We