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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-20
Ten Years Ago.

Ten years ago.
Mr. William Brooks spent the week.
end with HI, parents, Judge and Mrs.
Caleb K Brooks
The latest club orgSglzcd met Fri
day at the home Of MSS Margaret
Wright at Eleventh and Broadway. Il
is known as the NJ NJ club The of-
ilccrs arc Miss Ethelyu Johnson, prcN-
dent, Mis-, Blanche Bowman, Sccrc-
t1ry The other members arc Misc
Janet lIarNn,tein. Viola Todd taro-
line Colyord Marie Ford and Ruth
Bailey xa
LINN Goloblc oi the State Register
al Guthrie was in the city today
Mrs Edward Davis guests. Mrs Mary
Hcnslcy and Mrs Hugo Dclmar, c.
turned to Chicago last evening
Miss Rcbccoa Mayo Bate Of Loui'-
Vile Ky is visiting her cousin, Miss
Emily Mayo
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-20
Names Is Names
Our Daily Special.

Carrie Money live, at Frankfort, Ky
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-20
OLDST0RIBS.'
INNEW
Twenty Years Ago.
1tom IRE TINES PILES

"'hC 'S"iS nko
Ed Durland and Howard easier re-
turned this morning from visit 10
Gainesville
Wallace Parker Of Norman is visit.
irg his brother-ln-law DR.. Maupin.
Miss Marie Pcyon departed ycstcr-
day for summers visit TO Charles
ton, ILL.,
T J.,Stcwart Of II Reno was in town
today
A. G Bennett returned to Purcell
last night
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17

woman who primps so mych that she
forgcts 10 pray is barterihg away her
own soul for tho love Of display; but
the woman who prays great deal
and pays no attention to her personal
appearance IL n sinner against every
instinct OF good and II disgusting nui-
sance to her people. While prayer is
valuable thing, cleanliness Is next to
Rodliness, we are told. 1t Is ribht that
women, and men too, for that matter,
should make the most OF whatever
physical, as well as mental gifts are
Vouchsafed by beneficent Creator
but II Is not meet that personal adorn-
ment should become our chief anxiety
or that love OF admiration should be
our god. And prayer, to be sure, is
not physical matter so much as a
spiritual People may offer up petit
tions 10 God or TO some other object
of worship, but prayer in truth IL n
state Of mind where the human soul
draws near TO its God In confidential
intercourse. Every other kind OF
prayer is n meaningless form and no
amount Of formal piety can excuse
disregard Of physical or intellectual
excellence.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
WHAT YOU CAN Do.

There are 80 many ways open TO the
person dcsirous of helping the nation
In this hour Of emergency that there
Is no room for patience with any cx-
cuses for sloth(ulness or Indifference.
Everyone can find something to do,
II he Is willing to do it, And in tho
doing many of us viii acquire feel
Ing OF conscious nationalism real
ization Of our being part and parcel
OF the greatest people on carth-to
which we have heretofore been a
stranger. Tho Bible says it is more
blessed to gIve than receive Most Of
us have been receiving benefits all our
lives from bencficcut government
and have come 10 look upon 1t as such
"a matter Of course that the suggestion
thing I'm return comes to many of us
ns a surprise. We have received free
ly and fully-now It is our time to
give'and We will find JOY and a sat
Isfacuon I'm the giving that will raise
us above many of tho petty considcra-
tions Of life and give us a new con-
coptlon OF citizenship
Never in our history has there been
a noblcr call to duty We have en-
tered this war with n thrilling and
convincing statement of our motives.
We have come face TO face with the
duty each one Of us owes. not to our
country alone, but to civilization. But
II we are going TO give substance to
our inspiring pronounccment of dcvo-
tion To the cause Of liberty and hu-
manity every man, woman and child
must keep this high ideal I'm mind and
work consistently toward that end. We
will learn To look upon our flag as
sacred token Of service, rather than as
an emblem to be ornamentally dis
played ON special occasions. There
can bc but one brand of loyalty now.
and that loyalty is signallzel by active
support OF our governments plans.
We despise the man who In this time
Of peril opposes the reasonable aCtl-
vities Of our government, but he e.
only one degree worse than the man
" no indorses the government but does
nothing to hclp carry out its plans.
The one is seditlous the other selfish
and lazy. The quicker every one of us
gets busy doing for the aid OF our gov
nrnment that which he can do best
and which that government needs
most the sooner viii this war be over
md peace reign once moro.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17

sonal interest or personal comfort
blind our eyes to the fact that our
supreme duty just now Is TO preserve
that government for the people that
Lincoln said should never perish from
the earth. No one having faith In the
energy initiative and rosourcefulness
Of tho American can doubt that wo
VIII continue to rise to tho occasion
and that new problems and new CON
ditions will stil find us able to make
II satisfactory and credltablo adjust
mont.
No one doubts that we will emerge
from the conflict stronger than before,
better fitted by the trial 10 take our
place among the great powers OF the
earth. better fitted to lead the world
In all that makes for the betterment
Of the human race, physically, morally
and politically. Tho trial before us
IL long one. The American con
science. while slow to arouse. will not
bo found lacking In the emergency
and our part IN the affairs Of the
world viii be done, II not spcctacu-
larry, at least crcditably and the world
and ourselves be noblcr for 1t. The
stage seems now set for period OF
prosperity that bids fair to outrival
anything I'm our history Again viii
the temptation have to be met of put
ting our love of gain ahead Of the
general welfare II We yield to that
temptation We may expect tho future
to hold for us "a painful era Of return
Ing sanity and a panic whose depths
we cannot foretell Fate offers us
great opportunity How wen we profit
by It depends on our keeping an eye
single on the view Of the national vel
fare ms OF far greater moment than
any temporary individual gain. The
conscience Of America. not It's purse.
must be our guide.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
MAKE BETTER CITIZENS.

one of the objections great many
people have urged against military
service is the loss of personal liberty
involved I'm the surrender to absolute
authority. There is naturally a great
repuguanco in the average American
mind to a man placing himself in
position whore another can say GO AMI
ho must go. or come and he comes
promptly Even our children show
this disposition when the most of them
will only obey after having made a
bluff at refusal and our men and
women are Just grown-up children
anyway To yield this privilege OF
bluff, even In the face Of n national
necessity, goes hard with lots of peo-
pie. But 1t is necessary that respect
for properly constituted authority
should be forcibly taught in some way.
and there is no more thoro chance to
learn it than in military matters.
1t IS a valuable lesson to learn that
certain personal liberties must in all
walks OF life hc surrendered for the
good Of the whole people. Nowhere.
however. Is this more apparent or
more thoroly enforced than in a sol
dicr's training camp II comes as n
shock to the civilian who has been
used TO regarding his personal idiosyn-
cracics OF dress, conduct and manner
as inviolatc TO find that the army
itself sacrifices practically every rlghS
of the individual in the greater good
OF fighting for tho common good OF
It's countymeu In place where
even the clothing in which man
sleeps is cut to uniform pattern and
where personal taste and preference
cut no firurc whatever this lesson is
deeply lmpressSd upon every recruit,
and 1t is worth noting that those who
undergo She experience are not the
ones TO criticize or complain, but
emerge as the strongest advocates Of
discipline and converts to the beauties
OF systematic obedience to authority.
This kind Of training, therefore, in
teaching restraint and respect for en-
forced rectitude, makes the man the
more III as a citizen. and the expert
oncc which the whole people is about
to pass under compulsory service may
be expected to have far
reaching and highly beneficial effect
upon the citizenship as a whole. We
will stlll love our individual liberty,
but we will have learned that there
are things in this world more impor-
tant than just having our own sweet
way.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
HUMILITY AND SLONENLINESS

| when the Savior said the meek
should inherit the earth he did not
mean that the uuo to earthly possess
slons should become the property OF
the slovon. smlity ls one thing and
slovcnincsS is another one may lead
to the other either way we take II.
| one may become $50 Inundated In his
own estimation that ne is mscnsiblc to
tho care of material things ana roclS-
less OF personal appearance; or one
may be so slovculy and careless that
hc is conscious OF such an mfcriority
that he has not tho courage 10 bo any
thing elise but meek Tho kind Of
mcckncss the Savior had In mind is
the absence Of that bellleoreut assor-
tion of individual privilege which SO
many people assume and deceive
themselves into thinking they are
superior brand of humanity We arc
nowhere told to give up any of our
rights without the giving makes life
better for some other human. We are
To mako no sacrifices of self that do
not rebound TO tho general good of all
But we are warned. 10y this same
token, that those who claim most In
tho battle Of life are going in the long
run TO lose out. while those who are
content with what they know they de-
serve will be the ones who will inherit
all that is worth while after the nrro-
CANT crotist ls dead and forgotten
And here comes another point
Pride is denounced as the chief cause
OF human misery, and nothing is trucr
HUT then that depends on definition
Of the word pride. The evil pride is
that feeling that we are better than
than others. and that the assertion OF
our superiority whether II be mani
fest In our manner Of dress or our
general conducts the chief end and
aim Of existence Nothing but evil
can come of such an attitude. Vet
pride. ON another view, may be simply
q growth pt solf-rcspect. a symptom
without which no man can claim the
respect OF others or expect To be Of
amy good IN the world This is pride
which is consistent with humility be
cause II asserts no superiority over
others. but contents itself with being, |
saying and doing the best that Is In .
the individual That is commcnda- |
bile pride and such "a pride will help I
rather than hinder, its possessor in his /
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17

tive OF whom she had heard often
and grown TO love unseen.
The clouds rolled serenly by in the
blue depths Of the summer sky. she
looked again. The face had dissolved
away into feathery clouds. Down at
her feet sweet spring beauties starry
faces turned upward. caused her TO
gently caress them and yet refrain
from picking one Of the prettiest. AS
she knelt in the grass, close 10 the
flowers and bees, smelling the won
drous spring smell with which
Mother Earth was pervaded, she felt
far away from the face in the clouds
above, and more kin to the insects
even OF the earth earthly that bYzzed
about her.
Years after she saw that look for
tiny moment flash across the face
of her husband. one glorious lifting
up of the soul to her, and II was gone.
The kind, familiar face OF her John
was there again, smiling at her, and
he asked her why she looked so
startled. She laughed rather shaky
little laugh, and did not tell what she
had seen that moment. nor of her an
swering vision In that springume
garden among the flowers and bees
while gazing upward into the depths
of the blue sky above her.
She looked in vain for that soul
look OF her vision in the faces Of her
children.
Once again, years after, she saw
that wonderful. fleeting expression
showing such perfect sympathy, on
the face OF her poor, old wash-wom-
an. to whose house she had run pell-
neil on receiving the little scribbled
note brought by the barefooted son OF
tho old woman. sayiEg that she was
i'll, would Mistress Browning please
come to see her.
often her heart seemed almost TO
burst with wonder over her beautiful
secret-the look OF Gods face on the
faces of the children of earth-ths
oneness Of thing arthly even tho
flowers and bees with God. Yet she
never could speak of her moments Of
communion with the infiuite-the be
yond our ken-when she had caught
fleeting gliNpses OF the very real
sympathy of God, Of the unfolding
love that hovers earth's children.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
The Nedrness of God
OBy MARY GUY sEARs)

-. " NT.NTN0.J
one day long days ago. all in n
Iuet Earden, maiden looked at the
usIUWlhE Whlte clouds, and wondered
of the unknown. the bevond ou,. lion
and So while gazing. an open-eved-
springtime-da dreaming. q strongly
proflled face I'm the clouds above
looked at her With instant and helm
iul sympathy She knew the fleet
ing soul expression that marked that
race different from other faces. lust
MS so often she had amused herself
trying TO read the inner meaning of
races met with on the streets I'm
crowded places, in restaurants. on the
trains and In the street cars The
sHces she knew. II was as II she saw
for the first time some distant reIa.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
The True Amcrlco


ror your own your stand be for your
Maker.
And your country is God given from
the first.
Would you stand back and wait with
cowardly planning
And let the bomb come, land and
burst.
its our country, land and freedom,
were protecting,
1t means means honoT power, glory to
It's the man. the real man, the bugle's
calling
square your shoulders and 60 for-
ward, Ats our creed.
Uncle Sam has done his best to try
protection,
TO every child, man and woman In
our land
ana ne sees whore power now must
stop dissension,
SO the man. the real man, must take
his stand,
Mothers, sisters. don't stand back in
anguish crying
But look the matter boldly in the
face,
would you see the Flag, the only Flag,
that's floating
brot down in sorrow, gloom and
dire disgrace.
Il. G.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
The Flag.

Unfurl the flag of freedom to behold;
The ensign of a people young md
bold
Salute the flag of glory,
Reveal the stars of freedom In each
fold.
The Stars and Stripes-shall never
kiss the dust,
Every true heart of the nation, deep
must feel
The thrilling patriotic vim and zeal.
God has made our land II nation rich
and great
He inspired our fathers with ma
TONS fate.
Americans we are, and brave at heart,
And every man will do his part
Let our declaration stand.
Soul aflame and flag in hand.
We will serve in war with willing
hearts,
And the boys of the U. S. A
You have played well your hero roIo,
And the day is coming when you will
leave us,
We will bid YOU n last farewell,
With unsclflsh devotion,
FOR We know you are fighting on
Old Glory.
Miss Anding, 716 North Main st.,
Tulsa.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
Wants His Liberty

10 The World: | am u reader OF
your paper and want to do my part
r. the great war for liberty. How
ever, II will he impossible. for me 20
buy Liberty bond even upon tho
installment plan, as my Finances"
are so lew that / could not buy n
hundred pounds of flour If | were
going to be hung. l have a family,
am a years old, and hly wages for
farm work the past winter and
spring has been 81 per day. and l
board at home. There are just five
OF us in family and | am the sole
"brond- winner, the children being
small.
Having such hard time to merely
exist CIT is not "living"D, / am nat
urallv interested in war that prom
ises liberty. l am willing to do any
thing in righteous cause.-The lib
Grafton OF the poor and oppressed |
would he glad to die for such n cause,
for / know the sorrows of those thus
afflicted ! am one Of them. ! know
how IL feels to be hungry and half
clothed; how il feels to starve for the
food Of the soul, music. And | know
what IL is to be without an EDUCATION,
having attended school but two
months during my life. and that be-
fore l was II years old. | had no op-
portunity to attend school more.
was born and raised in America,
the land of the noble free therefore,
/ am n strong believer in freedom for
al. Let us fight for it with all our
might for we are really in bondage
slaves. The rich are slaves to self
ishnoss; the poor to ignorance and
poverty. Give us liberty, or give us
death. /, for one, am sick Of "life"
under present conditions. E. II. Fur
row. Terlton, Okla.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
DOPE!
Once-a-Week Stuff.
BY "CY" LOGSDON.

We have been looking them cvee
for some few years now.
Not that we were particularly I'm
terested I'm them.
We did not go out Of our>way to
do our observing.
They were Haunted before our eyes
as we ambled hither and yon IN the
pursuit OF our days toll
IIavinr looked them over we have
come to the conclusion that the l9i
models are away ahead of those In
vogue during previous years.
We refer to women's hosiery.
should they continue improving
and the war lasts for any length oil
time the boys in the trenches are
going to miss lot.
million men no have not given
the matter much thot will aeyrce
with General Sherman
War will be all the general CON
tended and then some.
AND THEN SOME!
Then on the other hand we learn
that the latest wrinkle so far -
hosiery for the gentle sex is con
cerned is that abbreviated type.
They reach to a point Just below
the knee, we understand.
We don't get the idea.
But suppose It is all right
Necessary, too.
Just as essential, we imagine, ~
those sawed off sticks they tote about.
OF all the nations vices incompe-
tcncy is the most pitiful.
ABSOLUTELY!
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
Pretty Soft for Father

Mothers sorting out the cahbages and squash
roters bought overals learned "Bgosh!
STSteIs T,! busy plotting out the little muddy beds
mat py ana by will be fun lettuce heads
Auh,'e , studying book How Make Things Grow"
Anu AL tha fathern have Spray! Sprayl
We do not fear the market tho Is here
We Just will Gull
Wen fit about from plant doth the busy bee,
And pluck the lush potato oottsome bean
And thus abos will produce quite everything
And all that faher'N do is Weed Weed!
The sulen slug the browsing bug, fitting
And mother and the
tell the
Well get information the subject
nd all that fathern have Spray Spray! sprayl
New American.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
A CHANGE OF VIEWPOINT.

We who have Boastcd of the pa
triotlsm Of tho American people have
been painfully disappointed at the OK
hibiuous of sentiment during the
last few weeks that cannot by any
stretch Of imagination be rccouclcd
with our roscate expectations THAT
the bulk OF the people are truly pa
triotic in intent is not open to doubt,
but we have been surprised at the
number and strength Of those who
halted ana drew back at the threshold
of a great duty. They have always
wanted to stand up for the Stars and
Stripes and would be insultcd II their
patriotism and loyalty were quos-
toned, but for one prctcXt or another
they have found fault with tho occa-
sion and have sought to throw the re-
sponsiblitios on other shoulders II
this Is not lack OF patriotism, where
can we look for the cause Of this de
ficiency?
Most likely it is a matter of wrong
viewpoint one OF the fundamental
principles of democracy is that the
nation was created to serve the pco-
pie, as opposed TO the dynnstic idea
that men were created to serve the
state our notion is undoubtedly
right. but we have carried the idea
too far, for, even II the state il the
servant of the individual. it must be
part of the Individuals duty. for self
interest II for nothing else to rise to
the defense OF that government when
its integrity is attacked II matters
not whether that attack be Immediate
ana nearby. or whether II hc threat
reaching It's hands out across the sea.
the state cannot continue to serve the
citizen unless the cltizcn will hclp to
preserve 1t in Its hour OF peril But
We are accustomed 60 look at things
from the personal rather than the ma
tional Viewpoint u les this obsosslou
in self that dulls the edge OF patriot
Ism. War must quicken our sense of
obligatiou 90 one another and our Joint
ohlirauon to tho nation. We must
correct our Viewpoint
II cannot Dee said that the United
States entered the war because Of any
Industrial commercial or national
gain i'm prospect An of these may
have played part I'm bringing ON the
state OF mind that determined us as q .
nation TO take hand In the defense
Of the rights Of humanity and the lib- .
erty Of It's individuals We are asking .
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
NBSOIUTIlLN!
ECHOES
SECTION 81 OF
ARTICLE two OF

SECTION 81 of
ARTICLE two OF
THE Tulsa sity
CHARTIiR reads as
FOLLOWS: "The city
SHALL have power to
ESTABLISH n Yorkhouse
FOR city convicts and
HOUSES of correction
AND reformatories
FOR Youthful
CRIMINALS" That's
WHAT II says for we
COPIED 1t right out
OF THE book. Now, do
YOU know Mat when
BOY or n girl
OF tender age
BECOMES enmeshed In
TUE police net, they
MUST go to jail along
WITH the other
PRISONERS? DO you
KNOW that? Well, it's
SO. Wouldn't 1t be
NICE II We had 4 city
RIFORMATORI, where
MISGUIDED youths and
FALLEN girls in their
TEENS, could be kept
AND taught trades
AND transformed into
GOOD men and women?
WOUtDN'T it be nice?
CSlouiel
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
The Poets Corner

"TuiSa."
Tulsa is a good old town.
don't care what you say,
I've never really seen her down,
But what she finds her way.
I'll own she has some mighty faults,
But SO has every town
So If you cannot help to boost,
You'd better leave the town.
M. Il.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17

the Indian territory, and it was
opened up to white settlement. As
subsequent events have clearly DEM
onstrated, they kept their Word
bud >Trainor. the man whom the
evidence discloses as the person who
shot and killed Deputy Marshal Dim
Naples, was himself killed " few
years later at dance on Coal creek
near Chelsea, Okla, by some negroes
while he was attempting to break up
their dance. so | am told.
| vouch for the truth of the fore
going article. and remain, sincerely
YOURS. a subscriber. d. E. Ward "a
cherokee, Collinsville, Okla.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-17
a Parody on "Tippcrary."

Parody on "Tippcrary."
Up to Happy Washington came the
German break one day,
and as the streets were crowded, sure
everyone was gay;
Singing songs of allies and OF their
country dear.
Until a Rookie" got evcited and he
shouted to them there;
CHORUS
It's q long way to Germany,
It's n long way to go;
It's long way to Germany,
Where the Germans are fighting so,
so.
It's good bye Uncle Sammy,
Farewell Washington fair:
It's long long way to Germany,
But our boys will soon be there
Inc Rookie wrote n letter to his
folks at home so dear,
SAylns, Il am sent to lick the Dutch
man, so may you never fear;
ANA do not blame me II | lose my
temper now and then" said he,
ANA IAN to chase the German and
the German chases me-"