Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-23
We Have With Us Today
Minute Interviews with the Great and
Near Great. Home and Abroad.

Back to the farm movement Is un-
dor full swing In Oklahoma.
Men In whose hands only golf clubs
have left callouses for such long
time back that memory fails to re-
call the date. are taking to the land
Also, more farms are owned" now
than ever before sicne Oklahoma be q.
came a state. i. e. Culbertson says
SO
Mr.. Culbertson, or "Cubby," as he
= better known In Muskogee. proba-
bly sells more farms than any other
man In eastern oklahoma. lie has
farms In MuskoGee, Wagner. Tulsa.
MdNcs and other counties and this
year they are selling. Heretofore
they have been renting. at least a
majority Of them have.
There's only one way to eNplain
It. Mr., Culhertson said at Hotel
Tulsa alst night. With so many men
at war and 80 many others engaged
in essential occupations. the only
ones who are left to buy farms are
those who never owned farms be
fore. Judging from my own obserya-
lions the men who are buying these
farms now are men who have occu-
pied clerical positions al their lives
aud have at last accumulated enough
10 pay for farm, It's the man with
the small farm who is going to get
hy the easiest when the attcr-war
rcadjustment comes"
Book agents as class never took
any popularity prizes and as a gen
rrIl thing the approach OF the book
agent : the signal for the locked
door and nobody home.
kut Hal" Thrccd Is a different sort
OF book agent Fifteen years ago the
cultured people OF New Jersey knew
Hale Threcd almost as well as they
knew Woodrow Wilson Threed
Was then pretty wcll along in years
ana he had sold books nearly all his
life, lie handled de luxe editions
and was a real bihliuphilc. In his
own library he had many old works
ut priceless value. Ills clientele was
composed almost entirely Of the in
tel.ectual h.ghbrows uf New Jersey
and lower New York state.
Hale Threrd was IN Tulsa for a
Httl" while Yesterday. He wasn't
here on any book selling expedition.
lie stopped off ON his way to CALI
furnia where he expects to live in
peace until his page is opened in The
Great Buok uf Eternity. lie con
nuvd to sell de luxe editions until
he reached the decision that he had
earned rest Now he IL rs years
old aud At that ago is seeing some
lhlnG OF America for the FIRST time.
Even his remarkable intellect had
become blinded to the great growth
of the American commonwealth and
hc confessed Yesterday that Okla |
homa has always meant the Wild |
west to him So when he saw Tulsa, |
me- pluchrd himself 70 make sure that |
Ne wasn't dream NJ. "ld heard Of !
Tulsa nut 10 goes away beyond my
Expectations. My greatest regret is |
mat ! waited Untl 50 late In life !
'o know my own country" he said |
."Flu. might say, differs from a
bad cold iu several respects" said |
|. VI Nichols. city editor Of the
World. who showed un Yesterday at
the oftcr with the fiu-wobble and |
. school house cough.
When You get a bad cold. you
know exactly what tO ddg hot lemon
tde. or hot-somethinE with sugar
and lemon IN It. n YOU know what
! meam and YOU forget Il. Hut
when You are bitten hy a tla germ,
YOU know You not only have to get
over that ,unoCuhtiou. hut you've
Sot the ever attending complications
.o dodg". and luu have a very ac-
'urato recollection Of flu statistics
'u bee NuNr guide
"NNuu, 'hc only thing one can 10
'u~ I'm l- 'u write your will and ar |
range yong personal affairs. Kiss theI
i...- uI select the color OF the