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

VI refuge ~ Tie peRlHHlnk, tne Aetaii
trade, wholesale trade, and manufac-
turing. What it the fifth
The fifth is the great bundle Of
things bound up in that phase, What
the workman wants for his family"
What you want for yours" What is
it? Perhaps it comprises in all its
parts the most effective single means
of building cities. Curiously no one
has a satisfactory name for 1t. The
movies would call it the lure of the
city; sociologists call it the city's eff
fort to richer and more highly col
ored and more varied life. We shall
be near enough to the truth if we
speak of it and pray for it as the
true richness of life.
Long for the City.
But what the man in the country
who removes to this city, what the
workman of the city may regard as
true richness of life, may not square
with our definition at all Neither
understand that this is not merely
theory, setting up this bundle of
things upon an equality with the ap-
peal of retail trade and wholesale
trade and manufacturing ! want to
get you to look with me out into the
country and then turn and look to-
ward the city. What do you Sc? More
than half of all the people whisper
for the city. Tragic it it, | think,
that more than fifty out of every hun
drcd residents of the farms in the
United States would leave them for
town life if they could get away.
Why?
Some anecdotes, every one of them
true, will illustrate why. The Albert
family possesses farm, and it makes
money for the reason that father is
not allowed to have anything to do
with it; if | touched it, it would lose
money. But every summer we go to
it and look from distance at the way
the farmers manage it. Not long ago
I went into the house Of the farmer
in chief and heard his wife talking
over the telephone to some resident
of the town who wanted to buy some
butter. Do you think she was an or
dinary saleswoman disposing of but
ter? Oh, no. She was saying over
the telephone, with much circumlocu-
tion, 81 don't know whether | can let
you have any or not" | asked her
why the agony about the butter, and
she said, "Why, it is worth so much,
sir, it is worth SO much that it is all
gone before we make it." And | said,
"How much do you make?" "Well,
we sold last week 131 pounds" "Well,
how much do you keep for yourself?"
ooh, for the lands sake, Mr.. Albert,
we can't afford to eat butter on the
farm"
How long do you think the boy who
is sert to the consolidated school and
the girl who has graduated from the
town school are going to be content
where they manufacture, not luXuries,
but ordinary necessities of life, which
they can not afford to eat?
Why Women Go Crazy.
We studied down in Minnesota,
Mrs. Albert and |, the lives of 100
women in an insane asylum and we
made some interesting findings about
them. One of them was that they
seemed very like other people. (Laugh-
ter.) or the 100, about forty should
have come from towns under ten
thousand, from the cross roads and
from the farm, but the number was
76. What was it on the farm which
had driven the women crazy? The
matron told us a story illustrating
what it was. She sal dthat Olaf stood
at the gate to his farm watching the
white ambulance disappear over the
brow of the hill. Then turning to one
who stood by 70 comfort him, he said,
"Pastor, 7 can't understand why
Hulda had to go and go crazy; she
amt bane out of her own kitchen for
three years"
When / was a little boy, l was
taught music by German, who gave
me such kindly attention with the
bow of his violin that / bore cranial
reminders of it for a long time.
(Laughter.) In the winter evening,
/ went over to their house to find my
playmate. There in the bleak par
lor of the house stood the musician
father, $50 pounds of him, with a
pair of dumb bells, reducing" When
/ had waited as long as a little boy
can wait, / asked him, "Please, Mr..
Auer, where is Carl?" And not un-
kindly, and without stopping, "Allen,
l tink you find him out in the back
yard NIT his mother, putting in ton
of coal" Laughter.)
Not long ago great German scien-
tist came to this country and / was
privileged to be of the committee
which entertained him. He was full
of praise of America; everything we
did exactly suited him. Finally, in
an effort to trap him little we be-
gan:
Don't you think the country pretty
big?"
"Oh, yah, gross"
"Don't you think parts of it were
pretty raw"
"Yah, but de parts of de old coun-
try. dey are raw, too"
"Well, gee whizz, man, do you like
even our sleeping cars"
"Yah, like your sleeping car; de
berth is long and wide and high and
plenty of air, but my wife, she not
like de upper berth" Laughter.)
Reasons for Moving.
Does this seem overdrawn? / am
giving to you pitiably real picture
of life on the farm all over the world.
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