The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-07
TULSA DAILY WORLD MONDAY, NOVEMBER Z. 1921

him.
Ho was working for the American
hSpreao company. so l went down
10 see him.
strolled in with oil my Chester
heid impolitoness, with my sUave
manncrlsm. and | said, as / leaned
over the counter.
How do you do7" and called
him by his given name. I've just
been in the neighborhood and seen
your wife. Everybody talking about
what you did and they are think.
ing about having you pinched. but
{ have been rtalling them off"
said They asked mo to come down
ana see you, 80 | did. You oughtn't
[ treat her that way sho wants to
go to church; you ought TO be en-
couraging her
And he ripped out string OF
| right angular, triangular. hair
| splitting, blister -mouthed. blood
/ curdling oaths Re called me every
I thing he could lay his vile tongue
! to. and " all the cnmity In his heart,
| ranking against me and against
/ religion had been injected into his
l stomach. he'd have died OF black
/ vomit In three minutes
was graduated from five gym
nasiums; I can go 80 fest FOR five
rounds you can't sec me for dust.
| put my hand on the counter and ]
went over there like "A shell out Of
mortar and he jumped backward
10 grab 32 ralibcr gun that was
lying there 7 Jumped between him
and the gun and ! said
Don't YOU move 10 touch that. II
you do they will take you up with
a dustpan and "A whlskbroom.
He said 10 mo. you have no bus
incas behind the counter"
! said, You are right. Neither
have you any business to call me the
Infamous names that you have. sir"
and 1 said. "and you go ahead and
ia advise YOU to get your photo
graph taken because your wife
won't know you when you go home
In tho Rod Cross ambulance"
said. You get out from behind that
counter and come out here on the
side walk and I'll show you the
finest demonstration Of muscular
Christianity you ever looked at"
And that ginH had come out ia
have hackslld long enough TO have
licked him. But II / had, I'd have
gone up against that verSe--see7
pray for them that despitefully
use YOU and persecute you
IT'S a hard Job. I'm trying my
level best,
Trials Test virtue
Your virtues are best disccrned
when subjected 10 the severcst trial.
Tho hammer displays the excellence
Of tho diamond and the furnace as
certalns the purity Of the gold
MreFncss is a dormant quality until
injuries call II out. You let your
character be blasted you let your
interests be ruined: then Il will ap- .
pear how far these qualities govern /.
and control you. Rene ember Chris .
tianity is n cross as well as a crown; |
II IL martyrdNm as we'll az corona f.
ton. II IL exile as well as home. It I
is tears and partings as well as re- 4
unions
why cali ye me Lord, Lord and .
do not the things I say ! say
my friends, IN your home and in .
your family life9
what motive animated your mar
riaEc' was IL the basis OF mutual
attrnction7 why did you marry that
girir because she was n good locker
rvcly9
why did you marry that young
follow because you thought that
whom the old man kicks off and the
will is probated that he'd get some
thing that no hasn't the ability TO
earn? why did you marry him7
Now, whenever a girl gets too
proud 20 marry n young fellow with
$50 acres OF hni and 100 red hogs
and a lot of cows, because he can't
tell tango from n load OF hay
say. YOU put II down, will you. as n
lendp,pe cinch that she'll either die
an old maid or she'll marry some
fellow on $40 per with one pair
OF holeproofs,
Girls. II were you ia rather
marry n man who Is man enough
to wear pair OF accent overalls
than TO hook up to some Cuthhert
who can play the mandolin or me
ukclele and smoke Turkish cigarets
and live Off the old mans pension
That's good dope.
II had the power to enact my
convictions into law. ] would re-
dlire and compel that tho prospec-
tive husband be able to show some
thing more than the mere price OF
a marriage license. He'd have to
show an ability and a disposition to
maintain home; he'd have TO
show himself sound I'm mind, SOUND
in body and sound In morale:
want TO tell\you, generations yet
unborn have the inherent right to
be born.
Three Modern Plaques.
There are multitudes OF people
not SO much born into the world as
they are, damned into the world, I
and their fate is sealed generation
before their mothers kiss them. ana
IL their old granddaddy or great
granddaddy had been hanged for
stealing horses, he wouldn't be in
Sing Sing.
The three plaques of modern
times are tuberculosis. alcoholism
and venereal disease, The first II
subject TO some sanitation-tuber-
culosis. The second, the saloon, al
coholism, Is supposed TO be re-
strlcted by law. while the third has
no control other than the whims
and the fancies, the dictations and
the passions and the lusts OF lustful
men and women.
Like produces like--ln horses,
hogs. cats, dogs. canary birds and
human beings. These are days when |.
the farmers sof this country are
spending millions OF dollars 20 de- s
velop the highest, purest strain of
blood In animals all over our land.
They have learned my friend, that
blood tells. Bloods tells.
Somebody has said the hand that ,
rocSs the cradle moves the world,
Ke nV cod "A D 2