The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-01
YEAR no LOOK FORWARD 10

4 YEAR TO LOON tOhWN Nhn ~
There opens today year that VIII w w.
,,r,, living AS a nation wc are destined 20
urogrcss substantially In the science on b"N''"
mont. as business men. laborers and producers
wo are certain to bc much happier ana ""''
contcntcd az the days unfold than We were !"
the closing days OF the old year
rho moon has it's phases the year it's seasons
the sun on occasion goes into eclipse every u"S
has its might. Likewise In all human under
taklngs there comes periodic seasons OF ro"u
ms,mcn, and stock taking. Just as another fun
moon ~ certain to blaze in the heavens now dafk
and gloomy; Just as the will surely com"
from behind the shadow and again cheer the
earth with its rays Just spring viii surely
follow the coolest and most cherries winter and
day follow the darkest night, just 20 certainly
does an era OF great prosperity and contentmcnt
follow these seasons of Industrial readjustmcnt
and psychological depression.
nm. o,v,,,v,tion ia no, totterng; 1t is, in fact,
In no danger whatever. For or every h"hu'c'
men YOU know at least ninety are sane III" "'
together devoted to the cause OF government ny
law pus,ncss IL not going to pot and neither
povcrty nor famine threatens. The phenomena
we arc now experiencing In altogether ha'ura'
and altogether necessary iol ou' ""h e"'"'
Every citizen of this republica is being re-
ouircd to pay the tull price for economic ms
takes of the very recent past. Crim'nation an"
rocrimination availcth nothing. II Is true 'h"'
some suffer who did not sin. but 1t was ever
thus. II will always be thus, Hut their num-
Der in this instance IN small. For somo 'h''e
years we have. as people been reve'''ns III
n drunken economic orgy. There existed pros
perity unparalleled in the history OF the world
But the pity OF 1t all IL that dreaming IL Wou'n
never end. that II NEW day In fact had arrived
when all old laws OF nature and economics
were repealed, we spent with such riotous aoa"-
don that few IL any are richer by reason Of It,
Had every man and woman during the last.
three years OF unbelievable income lived under
the compelling forco of the old virtues thriit'
industry, self sacrifice there would he no such
thing as want and financial embarrassment to-
day All would possess reserves capable OF car
rying through any period. which, OF course, is
tantamount to saying that had such virtues been
practicod the hectic period OF initiation and pa
per profits could never have occurred, Nor
could 1t have.
But there came among us ee"hom'S'S VI
new and utterly false school. They SAID Speho'
buy, speculate for In such manner can we Keep
busness going as usual" And the Tragedy OF y
is that the great public listened ana Sie'ae"
And so the unsound economic era came into DO
Ing and doomed along until the breakers were
heard dashlng the rocks OF disaster Just
ahead.
And 50 We must needs pay the price OF our
,uv We stand today lust about where we have
always stood Most Of Us have sadly written or
our paper pronts-that never did exist In fact
al 1lt hu Al iYtNt .
"marI,inp up profits" by the mere use of n lead
pencil based ON no more substantial fact than
,bot some other fellow had sold house, or 4
suit of clothes, or "A security, or u bush"l OF
wheat or "A measure OF corn, pound of cot
ton at that price, regardless of it's real worth.
has stopped And We somewhat shamofacedly
ndmt that We were crazy to have ever INDUCED
In such practices.
But the great fundamental UNDERLYING hvs
of national prosperity have remained UNCHANGED
through it an THE NATION Is Not ONLY
SOUND POLITICALLY, BuT TT POSSESSES
EVERY ELEMENT ESSENTIAL 10 DEEP
AND ABIDING PROSPERITY. THAT is the
truth we would have everyone grasp fully TODAY.
we have over a hundred million people to tecd
and clotho, and house and in the doing of that
there is work for all prosperity Tor All
What we have discovered is this 40 MAN
CAN EARN \ HUNDRED DOLLARS \ DAY
As AN ARTISAN AND so BANkER. MER-
CHANT OR SPECTATOR CAS- REALIZE \
HUNDRED PER CENT DIVIDEND OK
PROFIT The unoarncd increment cannot safe
ly be figured on the same basis as the prospector
who frankly throws the dice with rate and win,
only once In thousand throws.
There is gust az much wealth in the United
States at the close of 1870 there was at thl