The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-13
TELLS HOW TO
MEASURE MEN
ucKeever Advises Girls
How to Pick Out
the Good Men
MONEY NO CRITERION
More Happiness Comes From
Growing Up Together Than
From Brilliant Start

n From Brilliant Start
The c,.. Of a mans clothes and the
.mourt .t money he spends to show
u tsr a good time is no standard for
e.rI ru.. sing q husband. Dr. VIII
lam N,Ncever uf the University
N kau.t. told an audience OF girls
fhp S.. W. &. A. last week in a
,rflre upon the subject "How 70
Know "a Good Man" If girls would
ray NOR, attention to the way man
.pend. his leisure time, and 10
i ,hc,hcl hc is working clock time
~ the money there is in the lob,
Il looking forward to the future
BID puftuC his whole self into uso-
.l and honest work, and less at
.entlon tu what Dr. Keevor terms
the minor details, there would be
.s,s unuappiness in married lives. he
believes.
"Wnat difference does II make"
no asked "if he doesn't cut his hair
tho up-tn-datc way, or If he doesn't
manicure his nails all other things
being righ you can teach him those
things In half an hour after you get
him. Tell me what your young man
does with his leisure hours for lust
one week, and I'll tell you what his
future Is going to be. a man cant
20, away from his secret thoughts.
Ills habits speak their language for
an the world to read.
AS To what a Roy should have
20 get married on" DR.. Nick eever
continued with smile, "he should
lave a dollar. A good American
k<ollar. willing hands and an alert
Fbrain, his visions and chance to
make good. ! like to see two young
people start humbly. work hard and
20 up together. Nowadays they
'hlnk too much about things: they
| can't get below the exterior OF
/ things and they are cheating them
selves Of happiness, and letting the
bes, things of life slip by Just be-
causo Of that. Work is the great
blessing Of life, and when you girls
see q man who maybe is n diamond
IN the rough. but who has brains
and a vision, don't you be afraid
NJ work, too, but take him and help
him and go up with him"
Il was natural that DR.. McKeever,
who. aside from being teacher,
writer lecturer and psychologist IL
the author of the most radical anti
Clgtret law in the world, that of
Kansas, should touch upon the sub
ec, of smoking.
Don't" said DIR. McKeever. "go
lack on a young man because he
smokes cigarets. But help him to
stop It. And as for his religion--I
don't care what his religion is--the
underlying fundamentals are the
same. The essential thing is that he
have religious convictions
The great American problem right
now lies In the refining, both in
mind and In practice, the play of the
nation America Is passing through
now, Dr, McKeeNer believes, the
oarsest, most brutalizing epoch of
play that the world has ever known.
The roots of this evil go deep and
he cure must be effected by start
1g from the very beginning, In the
home. The very fact that the ma
Tons play could be so thoroughly
rommercialized points out the great
defect that people are no longer the
overs Of humanity, that they should
be--ths is because the opportunity
Of adolescence has been lost.
Young people" declared Or. Nc
keeyer ARE iazzing away the period
when the instincts of youth demand
acquaintance with people. They are
nvoIuntarily by natures reaching
out to know people-peoplc, the
most interesting thing in life. Jazz
music and the Jazz dance are rob-
hlng them Of their day of grace and
when they are older. they no longer
nave that instinct: their social per-
spective is narrowed, and they are
overs, not of humanity. but OF their
| own few comprising their narrow
little circle. The young people start
wrong. Whenever | see a so-called
pad boy, or a bad girl, | don't
urn on them. ask to see the town
wa the parents that made them
The golden rule. Dr. McKeever
,aid, is the best rule for business.
When the tendency of the age is
To- take God into business, to be
wiling to start humbly, and guided
ny vision, work hard and play wise
" TO be able to live alone some
tmes' dream dreams and work out
nose dreams, and to spend wisely
because Erowths has led up to II,
men Will the nation as "A whole be on
d sound working business and its
perlls draWfed,