The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-03

side their province. But because It IS
outside their province cannot make
them deaf and blind TO the tragic
I'm many instances. need that they
find everywhere. DO you know
your Tulsa? You don't, IL you have
never visited the homes that Miss
Richardson and Miss Swanson VISIT
If you have never seen the stark
want and the aching poverty and
the horrible conditions that they are
striving so hcroically. and with such
little material, to remedy a family
of six or eight children, the father
and mother in advanced stages OF
tuberculosis, several of the children
in bad state physically aGd all Of
them living in two scrupuOusly
neat rooms. struggling TO make "A
living from their garden. ekcd out
by the little money the father is
able to earn. Another big family
| living In squalor, one child in a so-
rious physical condition, the father
steadfastly refusing to allow him to
be helped. Two women living on
S6j month. These are only few
of the things that these two women
see every week, and only the brief
est, most superficial kind Of Il
glimpse into the nature of the work
they are doing.
one OF the greatest needs con
fronting them just now Is the need
OF hospital in which tubercular
! patients can be cared for. There Is
| no such place in Oklahoma. Sup
| pose you are pOor-really. dreadful
| ly pOor,-and are room.ng, and are
stricken with that disease. There Is
| no place to which you can be taken
| for treatment. Miss Richardson ana
Miss swanson have been doing the
, only thing they could do-build
| porcheS on the sides Of the homes, ,---
! more often shaCks-Where tho dis
ease has come, and fit it up for the
| patient That alone is d ono-mau
job.
Take the case OF negro here I'm
| Tulsa last winter. The man was not
| well, had no homo and no money,
and out OF pity. a pool hall owner
allowed him 70 sleep in his place of
nights, and he hung about there the
greater part Of the day. This wen,
on all winter. until suddenly one
unhappy day he had hemorrhago.
The pool hail owner came 10 Miss
| Richardson.
you must take him away" ne
told her. People won't come 10 my
place with him there"
There was no place open 20 him.
Unless he won't insane or was feeble
minded, the state provided no place
In which he could be cared for.
And said Miss Richardson with
gentle irony we couldn't shoot
him"
The climax OF the whole thing
was that Miss Swanson sliced about
three days out Of her weeks schcd
ule, and at the end of the hunt
found a private homo In which he
could be cared for.
Went 10 See Chow Chow.
From the tragic 10 a lighter vein,
just now Miss Richardson and Miss
Swanson are thinking overtime try
ing TO devise ways and means by
which they can Conjure S35, so To
speak, out OF uothinEncas in order
TO bring Chow Chow the Health
| Clown" TO Tulsa. Chow Chow has
becsl a knock out" in the parlance
OF the street in Chicago, and Is max
ing every city OF any size the country
over. Children 50 wild over him,
and he IL doing tremendous Work
In the interest OF the health crusade.
Oklahoma CITY gets him for several
days Other Oklahoma towns get
/ him. Negotiations have developed
! the fact that Tulsa can have him for
ono day for S35. SO Miss Richard
! son and Miss Swanson are dreaming
/ of mamma in the form Of S35.
II was about Chow Chow thai
| the children IN the open-air school
wanted 10 know. Eagerly they asked
| is he coming" Soffre had moth
| ing on the little lad on tho cot. His
| coat lapel was hidden from view by
! badges and buttons-recogniti Of
/ earnest observance OF health cru
sade rules. lie surely does want to
sec Chow Chow