The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-06
Barometer of Public Opinion
Give This boy News!

Editor world. I'm hungry for news from
home said a marine the other day when man
arrived and the long awaited letter was missing.
Then ne broke down and cried like chiid.
| could cite scores OF instances where men
brave as lions In tho face of foes, with set jaws
and with faces from which every vesuge OF
color has vanished, wait for the distribution OF
mail at the marine barracks ana wnGn arrd,s u mas
been distributed, turn away Joyousy or sorrow
fully their demeanor depending on whether
Dame Fortune has been kind to them or mas
made them the victims Of her capriclous mood
Rather disheartening, you will say for an
American marine who has to live In the 20
minican Republic, under such conditions IL Is IS.
lived in Tulsa all Of my life until about TWO
years ago Possibly a few of the residents VIII
recall the name signed to this letter nope
they do. More than that | hope they VIII take
sufficient interest in me to write TO me
'I'm hungry for news from home
| would like to receive letters from scho2,
children. The news OF the schools as relates ola
teachers new teachers, new games, new studies,
new playground sports, would enhven many dull
hours when ali a marine can do when at leisure
TO wonder what IL going on In The great world
beyond the Dominican Republic,
Parents and teachers may be assured that
such letters would be gratefully received and
in return | would endeavor to convey to my
youthful correspondents an idea of the Domini-
can Republic, the aspirations OF It's people ana
their costumes
HARRY A. DICIOCClO, Pvt.
Headquarters Co., 18th Regiment
san Pedro dc Macoris
Dominican Republic.
care Postmaster New York.
T.. 81 am graduate of Washington High
and Miss Kate Moran was ono OF my teachers.
I graduated with the class Of 1916.
Editor world: First, may warmly commend
you from my inmost heart for the splendid SCRIP
tural, spiritual daily Biblical quotation Thoush
! travel almost continually, yet always read The
World. How this spiritual food has fed my soul
and ENCOURAGED my heart as | tohed Tor the
lowest and lost OF our great cities.
Second, | have thought that surely. one 80
honurng Gods word must know that thc re-
t,l. -. 4 thp Tic nftIh hn l.I
parAon; for IL the teaching OF Jesus had been
followed. no would have been called a
liar, but "A soft answer would have turned
Third and had the soned and spoiled dove OF
Ardmore been touched by one spark of true re
lgion or pungcnt Biblical, conviction, II would
have sent nrr upon her knees pleading I'm tears
for forgiveness before the one she had wrongcd
the most; for only after that could she expect
pardon from Him who proclaimed in His great
sermon on the mount, IF thou bring thy gitt 10
The altar and there rcmeWherest that thy
brother hath ought against thee, first be recon
ciled To thy brother ana then come ana oli'r
thy gift" Going under the water dry sinner
to come mp wet one before maudlln ser
OF heroine worshippers, IA not christian baptism
The first fruits of repentance would have sought
pardon from the cruelty wrongcd wife, mother
and children ana a turning away FROM thc pub
llctty or the movies as from the black plague
How different her repentance from the Mag
dacno.
"ro the han of the feast came tho sinful and
she mad heard in the city that Jesus was there
l'uhCOdlOg the SpltnuOl tnat nldEtu on me hodfu
she silently knolt at the feet of her Lord.
The frown and the murmur went round
through the mall,
THAT one so unhalowed should tread in that
hall,
And some said the poor would be objects NOR,
meet,
As the wealth OF her perfume she showercd or
His feet
she heard but the Saviour; she spoke but with
sghs,
She dare not look mp 20 the heaven OF His eyes!
And the hot tears gushed forth az each hoaye of
her breast,
IA her lips TO His sandals she throbbingly
pressed.
In the sky after tempest as Shjncth the bow
In the glance OF the sunbeam that mclteth the
snow
He looked at that lost one. her sins were for.
given,
And Mary went forth in the beauty OF heaven
NJ SIMPSON ALLEN,
Business Manager,
Tulsa Mission OF Rcdeeming Love.