Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-10

bNefybOdyS working 10 win the
war!
The average man who reads from
a Shipyard as a common lHborer, or
Il shipyard ~ n common labOrcd, or
a highly paid lawyer giving up his
practice to 20 To the front as "A pri-
yatc. realizes the fact, perhaps. sub
consciously Iiut "A glance at the
rosters of the United States merchant
marine. for example, will bring II
homo to him most fOrcefully.
Everybody. indeed Is working to
win the war Everybody has to, and
the whole nation is on the job,
There Is the Rev. Nathaniel NJ
Mrlbort, a Methodist clergyman from
Texas He forSook the pulpit to
swab decks, splice tarred ropes and
chip paint on the training ship GOV
rruor Dinglcv, at the Atlantic squad
ron base Of the shipping boards
recruiting service In East Boston.
He had already had three years be-
fore the mast, and n career almost
comparable to that Of Jack London.
II la more than probable that he may
have masters papers berore thc
war ends.
lie IL lust 97/ypars old. but since
he decided, at the age Of l6, that
Sallna, Kansas was too prosaic
place for him to spend his life, he
has had adventures that fall to the
lot OF few men. He wandered about
the country for three yeads seeing
America" first. After a year in the
revenue cutter service, he shipped on
"A British tramp steamer 10 the orient
and the Philippines. Then came
moro scafartng experience. and m 90
the fall OF 1910 his incllnations were
anything but ministerial. He could
swear and chew tobacco and deport
himself after the manner OF the
toughest OF salts II he chose to do
so. But one night ne found himself
hungry and homesick In New York.
Got "RcIlgious Dose
There. In howery mission ne
found friends, and what was more,
"a good stir dose Of religion" that
has lasted ever since. Eventually he
prepared himself for the ministry,
and his church in Houston, TeNas,
is holding the paStorate open for him
till the end Of the war
Having been married only SIX
months naturally leaving home and
comforts meant something of sac
rifice. but in these days one cannot
count personal costs" he says
There are a great many small and
diSaErccub BILE tasks for each of us to
perform hut we must train ourselves
in the small things 10 make our Wills
big enough TO endure the great sac-
rifiCcS"
Such Is the spirit In which the
Rev. Mr.. Mclhert serves his country
"A spirit euualled by that with
which his wife has aSsented to his
entrance To the merchant marine,
even though she kenw she would
have to go out into the world and
earn her own living
Then there is another preacher
deckhand. the Rev. Paul Pmnkett
BogEs OF Greenwood. S. c.
"Oh. RoEEs," was the salutatIon
he usually got from his instructors
in the merchant marine. And as often
aS not. 1t would be followed with
Come down here with your mop
and pail"
Dignity isn't In demand among
seamen in the merchant marine, and
the cnvirunmcnt is quite unlike that
Of the pulpit, hut the Rev Mr.. RoCgs
is more than happy in his new job
He says he has learned and un-
learned more since hc entered the
merchant marine than he ever
thought there was TO know.
Finds Out Some Things
"T have just woke up to what
real living is he comments on his
new work II have watched hun
drcds OF hoys come into this service
and settle down to the new order
Of things without batting an eyelash.