The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-11
Mr.. Ordinary Man Speaks

.'prce pieces can pay my debts
I'm awful fix don't know what IN the world m gong 10 oo
i. like IN rlnned.
50 poke Mr. despair written all his face as
h sd sn % S srcsn s l 4 oo %SS p "p @ y sa" I terrible
I'm in the same fix My shelves filled with goods which
Bought the highest and have to sell them for less than
they cost me; don't how can pull through it, s@|
the banker broke into the talk ITS the same here
G Zig bank demanding and can collect
On the notes due me- It looks dark and dseouEagmS to me % m
4 he said:
l Glow much family have you? tN tg Aa*
\ Reply: Wife and seven children.
Reply: NO. wife whole family the best Of health
''iiate you enough to eat at your house "
Reply. Yes have plenty and no danger of starving
s GLOW about cothing?'
And your house2'
Reply Certainly we have good, warm house"
Reply "sue have wood and coal enough for the pres
cent and know where to get more
To the same questions the merchant sim
questions and then Mr. Ordinary Man spoke again If all
that what in the dickens you fellows beeng about
ren of them ILL., and nobody to for them
know another who has been sick and hasn't worked for
and don't how he's going to keep the wolf from the
door know who cant their rent and are about to
be put and others VINO can't buy food and clothing
don't you fellows have kick about You ought to be
ashamed Of yourselves for grumbing
The farmer merchant and the banker listened honghuy
end they guessed" Mr. Ordinary Man right about
and their way better satisfied Now the farmer the
merchant and the banker in this story were types the ordinary
meet the street and in the stores and offices every
neither better off of than the ordinary
run of folks That there are of pabe poverty and distress
today as aways not open to question but on the whole among
the majority of those who talking about despd and hopeless
there plenty of the things needed for human webemg
and happiness.
meanc glance China Have you read the story of the
awful famine which has reduced millions to the Of starvation
have visited by the worst famine forty Reports say
provinces has fallen in nearly two
blade grass growing and the starving inhabitants have
consumed the leaves the trees Read the following extract
from letter to a Chinese consul;
"summer has gone still there is rain $ there
not the least hope The condi-
ton is especially bad around the southern districts of
Chilli Cases horrible happenings are reported every
dd u Nv ~" t~t Of Who those % who with their % whole m;v
commit suicide by poisoning drowning in order to escape
the more horrible necessity Of eating human flesh or selling
the of Tientsn such frequency that the city water
works forced to close down their refining tanks because
the water is absolutely unsafe for use " 8 W NH HiH =
Various relief agencies are at work attempting slccor
these suffering millions but when the most is done but little has
been accomplished huge is the task correspondent says
"At conferences at Peking Tientsm Shanghai Han
kow and elsewhere it agreed that it would be waste
Of food to feed any part Of the population an later leave
them to starve SO it resolved tat food would be
sent to district where would be impossible to
tinuc the supply until harvest time The decision
die, for it is possible to lives only by sending
K food to districts which could be given continuous supply"
Compare the conditions i'll America, in Oklahoma, il you
please with the situation these China if your
Imagination is equal the undertaking. and then perhaps
begin to have faint realization of how fortunate
Nobody denies that through a period of readju
which causing losses all classes and the problems which
pexng Everybody has his troubles but they
distressing
shape than the peoples many other lands Periods depres
and but the continues forward There
little danger of anybody being driven ponng the
Out Club until he suecumbs Encouragement
the of what he has and the opportunities
ling and gouehmg won solve single of the problems facing
but all things possible to the who keeps his courage
cheerful making the best of the
always better things ahead they no
but bend themselves with determination the
before then with confidence themselves
the wonderful of which open everyone ever
widnng field of opportunity IL