Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-03
Immensity of Wealth, Latent
for Ages, Being Brought
TO the Service of Men.
eFFaCEMENT OF DISTANCE
Flower 0f Petroleum Has
Bloomed for Men Who Are
Forced to Fight Sands.


Moroney. editor OF the Okmulge'
Democrat written from Congress
Junction, Ariz. where he has Eon,
10 recupcrate. as he says. from a
-troublesome bronchial cough, ou
hare In tho great romantic exposure
o, desert 81 miles from railroad
vl,e or post office.
Under this environment Moroney
writes a piece" which. In hts own
words, sings song to gasoline a.
seen from an angle not seen IN Other
countries than the great desert,
and in general goes ID show gnso-
line 10 be the greatest blessing 10
men that Is condensed In the nhmC
space and cost, in all the great ros-
Ter OF American industrial prod
tsets"
His article in full n as follows:
by REV. w. ]. MORONEY).
I stood last night at this camp in
he foothills OF the Rawhide noun
,ains and watched the light OF an
automobile coming toward the camp
full fifty miles distant out on the
bread desert" between here and
Congress Junction. which is SIS miles
nearly due east from here on the
Ash Fork-PhoenIx branch OF the
Santa Fe railway. Two or three
hours later the automobile passed
,hru the camp on It's road TO Parker
arty miles lest on the Colorado
rwr, the California line. Three hum
dred miles further Is Los Angeles.
i the head center OF all market direc-
tons In this vast region. As 1
watched that cars light. bobbing
psffpubly even at that great dis
lance, showing plainly the moving
tnsrN that overcomes distance.
gliding down into low stretches. up
aran over rises IN the great plain,
vertng TO the right and to the nft
In pursuit of the trail and plainly
making ume count In the gradual
eide tcFsrd the valley below us
indulged new estimate OF the
automobile and OF the marvellous
produc, OF the oil ceuutfy. the
Tower OF petroleum, the gasoline
WITCH made the automobile the ins
sriiahs fruit OF our times mechani-
cal genius. Even In the second CEN
iur following the invention OF Full
Won w will all stand In admiration
of he leviathan OF the sea as we
zee In the night out from shore
10 the vast, riding down the waves
ana maiestically Indifferent 10 the
distances which Its giant energies
overcome. Never will men outlive
ns pleasure OF indulging admira-
'M Of the spectacle OF the great
nlps on the sea Familiarity with
Nsf sight refuses TO lessen the
grandeur OF II.
imasnatIon lends breadth to the
usd for the indulgence OF admlra-
uoa ~ one contemplates the ter
IVu n the distances and the storms
sne he lonesomeness OF the seas
.aN Kept nations and men apart In
we ages before the discovery OF
n'sn power. II was the discovery
VI he power that led 10 the devel-
svnsht OF the mechanism To use the
we. heightening finally 10 the
recuon presented TO view In the
IA ships, Power Is behind every
sne, In whatever human field of
~.srest or effort.
me power which Fulton taught
%, genius of the time to harness by
eI turned TO gas about 10 times
p.hded within boiler. cylinder and
ss'Ou head. led TO the great ship 20
ueh men lay homass as the great
~, cWlizlng earthly agency OF all
,.tI' II conquered the sea dis
,a"s and storms and brought ma
49,. wgether (albeit, sometimes In
|. -, h rrhpple) and reduced conti-
~ "a of vacant and wasting forest
sN service OF mankind It's com
-. the locomotive. the Iron
s,,"s and lis steel way. carried the
,oa lhF contnent-conquering mis-
Al n.y.. 70 It's ends-its seeming ends,
vsneve II Is to Aristotle that the
eaSsm eo.'sm Is credited that Il la i'm
,..ns Tor man TO see anything
n. until after he has learned TO
r.ry things at one view. The
AZ, appears TO be automatic.
,rni.ru mru II may come perhaps some
r,A rAaAtion OF the suggestion car
i,stm, me opening lines above. that
as,s,e to the new estimate / was
po,. 70 give 20 the auto and the
IA, ~hlnd II by tho spectacle OF
Va. Wng light out there In the
au,o OF desert. ! had known the
fro,. worthy OF various estlma ties
70 uury convenience, comfort,
easis.~iy--not TO nientioh its oc-
nns. aspect as n common nuI-
hss. and insuffsrabIe disturber of
tA,r,.yl mind. occasional but not
sad ntisue, l had admired Il
,ee,,s aised the genius which had
vk,.o me wasting gas into the
ar " required the spectacle of n
ana aesert carrying men I'm safety
n.. ntnesa across forbldding vas,
TO contemplate Il In It's fullnes-
u,.,s as Companion OF the
ku,,,'hip and the railway An ~.
Ia CO. OF civilization. II the auto
sla.r venienee or a necessity In Inc
fa,, .,tes' II ls a blessing 10 ths
s,x,.. 1slehea which are counted Nv
IA. ~ this boundless west ava q,
reanv applies. the auto Is nnt
been zen zen and estimated untr n has
N. as a companion a..n, -
Ae N ships in the big r,I..Inn -
he r,lsi,..A A That II n seen, as that
hlly Imship Is wonderfully. force.
a. a. sesed on one who sees 4,
the lons. asst night out there In
serrors vast riding down ,ha
zen ~ distances thai haa -.