The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-09
The Struggle
Woman. the Buffer.


/ Again as In the DAYS when they
|w"rr launching their foint project
/ The Question Of Lif"." with MH@
! Sojdon. the Forrul household was
/ 'onsod with hope ana labor. Ouy
/ his tune II wlS Ned who VAS the
. working partner instead ~ MISS
| S"ldcn. and The stakoa and hopes
were higher
Edi'h.r Task md work became in
| hrilcly more complex and dfricult
! 'han any she had over undertaken
before, and ~ wnS 80 none the letS
| Tor the fact that her position with
the ENc"saon IIrl'cr Corporation
'h" name had been chiurud ro the
m orc modcs' dce,guu ION waH
| neither official nor had &, salary
auach,-i n had not even a name,
unlovv The Buffer could uc conHd.
| = red such
Nor with her husband and her
brother now us working partners
here arose fOr Ediin EclicS Of
Problems which ollird for al the
tact. patience. r"SnurDcfuIno~g and
~ porlrnCc rho could wrcst from
NE ana bring 10 hcr aid Ncd had
nfrsted that Fem and hie partner,
Calhoun. take 10 Themselves a thirri
~ the iutcr,~s' In the corporation In
return Tor their capital or the
other two-thirda no gave ono 20
lOhn and Edith 80 hold Jointly
keeping tho remaining th!rd for
himself
Soon after the rrorrau lza Hon Of
the huSincSs Fem and Calhoun de-
cidcd their share could be left Htfc-
" In the hands or Nod and John
l'crrol ana gave them fun sway
This ler Edith's husband ana her
brother I'm full control Of the bust
uoss with the responsibility and tho
rirht 70 direct tho policy Of tho cor
p"rniton equally divided between
the two men
The nearest approach to IN" prob
lemS. troubles. storms and dangers
which marriage involves - partner
ship In buan,~s An tho problems
~ adjusting two different PERSONAL
'lcN to common veal are there. all
tho mistakes, the Quarrels, the loss
through disoord. the Nightmares
and the threats OF shipwrcck only
that IN the partnership OF Ned
El"w"rlon and John Fc~roll all tho
shocks and collisions between tho
two had Edith az their buffer.
Tho clashes were Inevitable Given
a highly imaginative impuls,vc
NounE man ot New Flowerton type,
eager ana impatient fOr quick re
suits; and stoady. somewhat CON
rcryRiive cool headed man, dozen
years older. both working closely
together and tho occasions for
clashes came fast and furious
with all the cood will In the
world toward each other. ned
thought some OF Johns methods
would leave them stuck I'm the
mud while John sometimes folt
sure Sod way would "wrccl, them
in tho ditch
II took woman 10 keep them TO
rether IN tn" early dilficut DAYS
the woman who knew them better
than they knew themselves who
loved them devotedly enough To take
Tho infinite pains for their eakcs
which no man tako,, ror another or
even FOR himrc'f when he brother .
inspired by some ilra which came
to him Tor selling the heater rdkcd /
and aEon zcd because John pro-
nounccd Il unsound. i' was Edtth .
Who had TO translate 20 the youth .
tho resi- dangers in M" plan which
John could make clear to hcr pt-
tent attention. but not 10 Neds
And 10 VAS Edith who showed John
thr elements OF solid worth i'm the .
younger mans darink conceptions /
II was Edl'h. too who patiently .
and cnuvincinglN showed Sod that
life has something 30 teach that
youth docs nof know that Johu'g .
method was dictated los Years " rN-
pcriencc rather than 10y mere con
Re rvauon
Gradually, however. ana lnrrcv
through the medium OF Edin tho
two men learned 10 know each other
better Ia appreciate each others
power 'o work together with better
results 'o themselves and the hus.-
nose Nor did they fan 10 apprc-