The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-11-17

lack Oh interest pclhb AHoWH a.
4 Chickasha over the baseball propC
sition.
There's only one thing, as Sc
1t, that is wrong with what the doc
tor said. He stopped To- quick. HI
failed to point out some glarlnl
facts.
have been identified, in a small
way with the baseball proposition II
Chickasha since 1t started last sprint
| was interested, not only in base
ball, but in seeing the town o
Chickasha get on the map, wen
in, with a number of others and pu
money into the proposition. l an
not kicking, because | got value re
ceived. If had not seen a bal
game, would have had value re
ceived because l helped put some
thing over for Chckasha and I'm
glad of it.
The point, however, is this: The
baseball team OF Chickasha was fl
naneed last year by men, like myself
who in reality couldn't afford 1t,
while the men who could afford II
and who were benefited. the most
from the standpoint of advertising
given the town and the people
brought here who actually spent
money in the town, did nothing, or II
they did, they gave no more toward
the proposition than some salaried
man who derived not one penny ex-
ira from the fact that Chlckasha
was represented in organized base
ball
am carpenter and am asso-
ciated with the rlen in that and
kindred crafts. | know the sentl-
ment Of these men is that they are
more than willing to do their part,
but they want the big business Men,
who reap the real benefit from in
creased business, from advertising, in
fact, in every way that a baseball
team in organized ball helps a
town to do something. My exper-
ience is that when there is a base
ball meeting. or in fact, almost any
other kind Of a meeting wherein the
vital interests of Chickasha are at
stake, the merchants who have pro
fted most from the unheardof vol
ume Of business of the past two or
three years are not there. They
have been in the habit of letting the
laboring man, the salaried man and
the small business man who really
have some pep, take the lead in
these cases and then when he has a
hard struggle because of a lack Of
funds and cooperation, they call him
a chump for even trying such a thing
This doesn't apply strictly to base
ball. Look at the park and play
ground proposition. The men who
are really making the big money out
of conditions in Chickasha, don't
seem to care whether the children
Of Chickasha play in the street or
whether they play at all. BY their
own actions, these men are too busy
boarding up the dollars to give any
of their time or attention to max
ing Chickasha a better place to live
in. They are too busy selling goods
and making deals to look into the
future and see that these condi-
tions will not continue as rosy as
they now are, if they don't take some
time and give some of the thous-
ands of dollars that they have made
in Chickasha to help the town. They
want to take everything out of the
game and play nothing back into
It. They won't attend a meeting Of
any sort and when some Of the
small fry" comes around with a sub
scription list for something that
men turn it down, or grudgingly
give few dollars when they SHOULD
will boost the town in general, these
give several hundred. If they want
to see that this money that they
put into the various things is spent
as they think it should be, why
don't they come out and take the
lead in the proposition, instead Of
sitting back. letting some little fell
low take the responsibility and
then knocking long and loud if the
proposition isn't a big success?
Chickasha needs parks, an athletic
field. the county needs good roads
and a lot of other things, but what
is needed in Chickasha more than
any other one thing is a little life,
a little pep. a little Let's do it.
and not so much, why don't they
do it,. The merchants who have
been getting big prices for grocer
les. clothing. shoes, drugs. furniture
dry goods. in fact all necessities oi
life. will not continue to pile up theii
big bank balances if they don't get
behind Chickasha interests and push
instead of being a dead weight load
on the town.