Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-27

morning papers knoedcop. Bohemia
was at breakfast. for it was nearly !
o'clock. The editor of a magazine
the cartoonist of a morning newspa-
per, the newspaper women, several
actors and college professors and
well-known authors, seemed absorbed
in lcisurely talk.
I'VE cant get away from war
talk mourned the nervous-lookinl
newcomers.
Then they listened. A Scandinavian
goddess with Fatima cigaret he
tween her fingers was Criticising tho
salaries paid at Cornell university
, Two broad -shouldered. clean-sliinncd
youths were waxing heated over a
discussion Of French poetry Tho
cartoouist and the newspaper women
talked about the morning paper re
ports Of the previous nights Green
wich Village costume BAN and won
dcrcd who was the Herald reporter
who had outwitted copyreaders by de-
Scrlhing the womcn's costumes as
like that of Gunja Din.
The intellectuals are not worrying
about war" whispered one girl.
Out in the sunshine again they en-
countered a thiCk-coated group of our
little baCk-from Mexico soldiers
They We're suyng two girls trying
to make a modest scurry out OF i'm
pudent winds.
ON the bowery beneath the dingy
blue flag announcing Men wanted
for the United States army, was a
real war interest
Four men stood staring specula-
lively. their shoulders hunched up to
their ears, bracing their thin, patched
clothing against the bitter cold wind
1T means easy money and no
worry suggested the shortest Of the
quartet
but couldn't make good '
whincd the tallest. Pm one jump
ahead of tho undertaken, with that
/ bum lung. An he's gainin' ON me
fast"
"Shucks," snorted his mate. "All
you needs some good food-and a
Jest"
AN we need Is good food" scoffed
the darkest, with an oath. Look at
us. A fine lot we'd be for sol
diering- busted with a hard work be
fore We are 25-aud down and ont
with bad food ana helIs troubles all
the time"
The country needs men" said tho
little fellow wistfuuy. "And there
doesn't seem to be any other job
open now"
Sure the country needs men" in
torrupted the dark one. "But what
kind has II made? Look at us. Teeth
bad or feet bad or lungs gone Look
up and down the street and see the
mohs with their nerve all gone. too.
Look at what living in this country IS
doiu' to US"
lie broke off and looked up at the
/ lag half resentfully
Let en- howl about preparedness
Don't they know IL means men as well
as guns and things7
But us Americans have got to de
fcnd-"
Defend? DO you think any one m
this district is able 10 defend himself
let alone a country? Man, how in
---- can we prepare ourselves, when
we can't even get proper food? You
hlankety- blank little fool. | amt seen
an egg in our house in three or four
months. And even the little bean
that used to he s cents a quart. crawl
ing up In the price list until II is
something like 20 odd cents a
pound?"
We'll" fused the little man. "of
course your being out OF work is hard
luck But"
Lot of men who amt out of work
amt got enough TO eat srumbled the
"tHer. SSk rev OF these prepar-
edness sharks 20 stop hogging profits
SOS the rest of~the country can have
enough TO get fed up again. l might
a made soldier; lots of men round
here might a made soldiers. But
these here gabby newspapers and
preparedness cranks think they can
win this war with only guns and good
generals Preparedness? Thunder.
II doesn't begin in the munitions fac
tories. II begins in the homes"