The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-04-28
SPEAKING OF THE BASEBALL CROWD

1.-TWO souls with single thought two hearts that beat as
one You know what that is the basis OF American
iamy HE and long the condition described by those lines
exists means that and sympathecaIy link
ed together in partnership that wf last long they live
their ambitions efforts and hopes bound into bundle for the
accomplishment OF common purpose That sort OF partnership
cannot fail OF
Two thousand souls with single thought two
thousand hearts that beat That Chckaha at the
opening baseball game Wednesday High and owii there be
such degrees community like oursch and poor pos and
wicked young and old male and emae-al there their
minds possessed OF similar thoughts their hearts pusatng with
the same emotions Life thing Of infinite compety but here
reduced elemental terms simple emotions
instructive love OF sport and skill displayed pure play the sheer
JOY Of living ghbrow and owbrow and sinner all met
ON the ground as Exhibit A. OF genuine democracy
Learned scientists and philosophers who devc deeply into
the department of human knowledge which they call Sociology
that pre-emnentv social being the whole
human family combining form the social organism" They
further tell that is this social characteristic which dstn
gushes man from the brute creation and which has made ss
bic the progress his tadpoe
or something een the paeohc sea- Scientists have hab
It OF using formidable looking for very simple common
things You the social instinct work and little segment
OF the social organism in action the baseball game The fact
that folks just naturally like get together and insofar they
are permeaed with common thoughts and feelings, they
unit unctionng an Organism
Quite puny thing a single man. when he is the
business and every other field accomplish nothing unaded but
conquer only by cooperation with their felowmen they a
successful IN proportion they able to utilize the social side
of human beings and thereby they become leaders promoting
the progress Of civilization Without drawing together Of hui
forces there be advancement and tends sink
back to the low level whence he started when he was compan
ion OF the brute For illustration Of the latter tendency
cal leadership class strife has been substituted for social welfare
with of affairs bordering savagery the result
1t long way from Russia back the baseball crowd but
we can negotiate with one leap you will hold fast and sit
steady in the boat The baseball crowd the anites Of
Russia because all those folks thinking and feeling
with not the emotes suggestion OF clash of interests or
contrary purposes The point just this What would not this
little community of ours be capable of doing for itself two thous
and mnds-maybe thousand there
don't knovcoud be filled with single thought and many
hearts beat for the good The which
interests conflict is really much smaller than the field in which
they unite this true whether ourselves citizens
of the the state the nation What could make
out Of Cckasha commercial and industrial center with all
people united in mind and heart for the accomplishment
purposes that would serve all Of u.s. What educational what
civic would not be possible il would forget all
selfshnes and and permit the surge Of single great
purpose to sway us?
Baseball truly the great American sport at present;
furnishes "e that binds all Of folks together but
there greater sport the sport Of building communities that
will better minister the happiness and webeng of all peope
Life is very serious thing but is fine sport if lived rightly
There dividends joy be derived from right business and
industry from living for the good OF negbors well for
selfish gain and enjoyment there is fine sport helping
to build better schools better churches better homes better re-
facilities the whole community, and the finest sport
under the to be good and useful member of your own
community every dav in the year In the oneness OF mind and
heart the enthusiasm single object manifested by
the baseball crowd the the OF action that
will make this community that would like for it to be- in
the home team but it still finer to root for the home
highly resolved make it the best in the whole league
Transferred from the ball park civic life and translated into
action the spirit Of the baseball crowd will accomplish wonders
for Chckasha. ttt N
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the country really needs edition Who's WhoseNorfo
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naval holiday may be all right but they turn
all the gobs loose in one port-Arkansas Gazette.
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