Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-16
TULSA FOUR IS
PROVING WORTH
Demand for "Home-Made'
Car Far Exceeds Supply
On Hand.
BUYERS COME AFTER THEM
Oklahoma City Dealer Want
ed Thirty-Five But Sc
cured Only Seven.

One day about a year ago the d.
| rectors Of the Chamber OF Com
morcc were at luncheon at the Ho-
| tel Tulsa. holding their weekly meet
Ing and considering, as they do at
every meeting, what they could do
| to make Tulsa bigger and greater.
Before them appeared n man
with proposition to establish an
automobile factory here and manu-
facture hmoemade Tulsa car.
Although such plants had been tried
before In various southern cities
and failed, the promoter clothed his
| proposition In such dazzling terms
that he won his case. The factory
was established.
To-day the Tulsa Four" Is car
rying Tuisa's fame 10 every part OF
| the United States. II has taken
rank AZ one of the very best cars
at The price made. Declared by its
makers the best In the country"
even ita competitors admit that II
~ magnificent car and worthy
rival II In n new star In the auto
mobile world and It's ascendancy
grows with each day Notwith-
standing. production did not start
| nntii last Marcn. already 400 Tulsa
! Fours" have been turned out and
sold and now ones are being manu-
factured at the rate of seven and
eight daily. so popular have the
TULSA Fours' become that the fac
tory Is working it's men time and n
haif In an effort to keep produce
ton up TO demand. Only last Tues
day a dealer from Oklahoma City
made special trip to Tulsa TO
take 30 "Tulsa Fours" back with
him. But NO big is the demand for
them that he was only able to get
seven Let me have the others as
soon as you can" he said. Notify
me and I'll come after them and
.ry"
No Shipments Made.
This is Just one of many such
incidents that are happening every
week at the office OF the '.Tulsn
Four company. As Mark L. Carr.
secretary-treasurer. remarked, I'VE
oont have to ship thom; they come
/ The Tulsa Four" has demon
strated that Just an good nutom oblles
In Detroit, Mich. or Podunk ina
And why mott Il IA rnanufactnrsd
from the same standard parts that
the cars made in those citIss afs
made OF
Az matter Of fact, Detroit. which
mas become the automobfis canitai
OF the world without any special
reason at NIL fer-it might az we'll
peen any other city. imports so per
cenf OF the parts tts automobile
makers use. Even Ford himseIf.
does not make all his own uarfs
And since the Detroit factories Inv
most OF their parts elsewhere. whv
cannot Tulsa's factory do the snn,s
thing and make just as good car3
Thats the logical argument that
brought the Tulsa Four into er-
'stence.
Cam ,,n. A..
:" A"uo industry
There has been good deal ~
chmouflage In the automobile hua-
mess. In some mysterious way
years ago the south and west got II
INTO their heads that nothing was
good unless 1t came out OF the east.
Just ms the willy Germans drtrnmed
II into our heads that "Mada in usr
many" meant "de luxe" and wa.
better than anything we ourseIves
could do, so the east and nor,h r,ar.
looked upon as the only snction that
could really manufacture,
The reason the north and ea.t
won their dominating place In ou,
manufacturing life Is because tba
civil war broke tho so,,th and 4,
did not recuperate from n untI,
fifteen or twenty wears ayo ~,
had never had any industries ~
fore the war and after n IVES o,,ar
and the nation become n great MAJ
nfacturing country the sonth had -
money with which to estabitsh fan
tories. And there were Other d,..,,.
backs. As for the west n ,,.s III,
In "A way ''undiscoyeraf, =" Th~..
were middle aged men ana a,,a,.
younger in Tulsa who still rersn,
In thn,. ~ scnoolDuoys they saw
good old o. S. A. with a great yaI.
low patch lying across thai nsrs 80
II extending from Missouri 10 az
Rockies and from Canada m T.yas
labelled, The Great American Das.
ert.' Imagine It! Oklahoma gar
sas, Nebraska and the Dakotaa Tho I.
greatest grain producing emnjrs In
me world, called and firmly he :
lieved to be desert" So when I
n,ind ~ 'tase passed out of the /
ne ,t, ~ me american people and