Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-01
FULL SPEED AHEAD.
SAYS C. B. DOUGLAS.
Tulsa Will Experience Great
est Era of Prosperity as
Result of War.

The pessimlst ana chronic kicker
and croaker who sees in America :
entrance into the war the dawn of an
era of hard times and barren cup
boards has no place in the Chamber
of Commerce rooms these days. In
the first place, Secretary Douglas has
little time to divert from prospective
Tulsans of all lines of business TO
those who are loud in their declara-
tons that the country Is going to the
dogs"
'The people of Tulsa shoul be, and
will be, the last to sing in the chorus
of these hard time rccitals," ac-
cording to Secretary Douglas, who
makes 1t his business to keep finger
on the pulse of the country thru a
study of its bank deposits, it's re-
sources, building permits and other
prosperity indications.
"Fnll Speed Ahead"
"Some of the more timid are in
clined at this time to retrenCh, when,
as Il matter of fact, If there ever was
n time when the order should be FUN
speed ahead it is now" Secretary
Douglas declared yesterday.
''lf a man says TO you, 20 slow ask
him II he does not know that all of
the hundreds of millions of dollars to
be loaned to the foreign governments
by the United States, and which has
been locked up In the vaults of the
country. will now be taken out and
Immediately put to work here in the
manufacture and purchase of war ma
terials and in the production of food
stuffs in the middle west.
Ask him if he does not know that
in addition to these millions, the
United States government will spend
at home hundreds of millions imme-
diately, arming and euupping the
greatets army known in the history of
our country. Ask him If he does not
know that more than one million men
Will at once be drawn from the ranks
of labor, commerce and industry ana
modified into the great American
army and that to take the place va
Gated by these men, who will stll be
wage earners, more than one million
men, women and young people who
art not at this time bread winners,
will go into the active labor market
and sell their services at the highest
wage ever paid to persons of similar
capacity.
No Time to Fool Around.
ASK him if he does not know that
there Will be more to do, more money
to pay for having it done and less
people to do 1t, than ever before in our
history, and If the expenditure of all
of this money, and the employment of
all of these new Wage-earnors and the
quiCkcning of new and old channels of
trade will not bring to this section of
the country the greatest era of pros
perity it has ever known.
ASK him if he does not know that
the war has. even in England. given
to that island its most wonderful era
of busnes activity and that the condi-
tons existing in England will be null
tiplied a hundredfold in America
When he has answered these questions
say to him, this is the time to get into
the market with your money brains
and muscle; that there has never be-
fore been such an assured certainty of
unparalleled prosperity, reaching so
far into the future, as at the present
time. There is absolutely no reason
for applying the brakes anywhere
along the line. on the contrary, the
Spirit thinks there is every reason to
open the throttle of industry, business
and commerce, and with "a clear track
ahead, reaching into the future, make
the signal read full speed ahead