The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-11-02

The Philadelphia North American
has a very popular editorial habit.
II contains but one editorial In each
Issue, and that Is always OF two-col-
umn length. The excuse for this
| lengthy moralizing. 10 one needs bc
found. In In the fact that the craft
manship of the workman 10 OF such
supcrlative quality that the length IL
| justified The editor OF that es.
teemed publication has evidently
| been travelling. and during his travels
discovered Tulsa, Okla. The follow
ing Is taken from the editorial col
umns OF the North Amcricani
Thirteen years ago Oklahoma
| territory and the Indian territory
were Joined and admitted to the
union as the state of oklahoma, Up
TO that time neither OF these subdI-
visions OF our country had a very
savory reputation. The indianswere
! all right--thoSe who hadn't learned
low white tricks---but the rest of the
population didn't reflect ~ sbccia
credit on ciyiiiza tion. FOR the most
part.
The publicity then given that TO-.
900 square miles OF sandy loan
wasn't tho kind common sense
covets or course 1t had good people
and good homes. hn, the nation
heard OF II chiefly through train rob
beries, killings and murdcrous mis-
uhdersta n dirSs between redskins and
palefaces.
with population OF about L.
100000 II became the forty sixth
state---a fertile stretch fairly well
watered. with many farms. few
IN ctories, numerous coal mines and
some holes In the ground out OF
which flowed natures one form OF
liquid goid--crude petroleum II
had one city with some 10000 people
and seven others with more than
! 1000 each. In many ways II was az
crude as the black maple syrupy
stuff just mentioned. The css,erner
who took passage for its fields re
ceived the family blessing and was
followed by doubts and fears.
Most Of us in this part OF the
country never have fully appreciated
the empire which lies between tho
Mississippi and the Pacific. Nearly
oil westerners come east once In a
while, but comparatively few east
erners go west And the only way
TO know the west In TO see II and
touch hands with its people and
drink In the pep-laden ozone which
~ eeps its prairies, hills and valleys
within the last decade more OF
this has been done. As n result more
eastern folk are beginning TO value
the west at Its true worth. They are
beginning TO see that the boundleES
natural resources OF that empire ana
the equally boundless energy and en-
thusiasm OF It's people constitute the
Gibraltar OF our national assets. But
as the governor of oklahoma said 10
the writer last week, there was a
time when that part OF the country
deserved, In some measure, Its bad
reputation. Which same IL true OF
svery pioneer development-not for
getting the witch burning propensi-
ties OF the Pilgrim fathers!
THE easterncr who travels
through Oklahoma today finds him
self wondering whether he has wan
dercd into some magic resliEauon OF
the Arabian especially " his
ticket reads To Tulsa.
"A dopen years ago Tulsa was a
scraggly town OF 1000 inhabitants
who maternity put up with com
pl-,e assortment Of Inconvenience
because they had faith in the future
Among these 7 70OO-was man named
Cosden--a person Of no particular
Importance and no special need for a
Sockethook To-day his name Is
Mslnted In big letters on thousands Of
tSnk cars. he lives in regal bunga
low built on top OF one ot the mos;
beautiful skyrcrapers IN the land,
which he owns. and when the spiri,
moves him, motors over 10 the
.argest independent refinery in the
world, which also - his
II vou think this r. going too fast
&, Is only because the average east
erner Is Handicapped In his imaGtne