The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-11

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thing. real size Is another. II you .
don't believe it you try and stop a .
hornet with the cfi of your nose .
wh,a he's goine mile n minute.
size Isn't the only thing that 7
reaches the home base or puts the I.
ball out OF the lot. ignorance Is
stagnatiou: knowledge Is a river. ig-
norauce IS a. desert; knodcdge Is
fruit. Ignorance is povTty; knowl-
edge is strength. 4 plant grows be
cause 1t takes tn the sunshine and
the rain, tho quality u needs 70 build
itself W into fun fruit.
Now. we all know this II Is bet
ter to iced boys and girls books,
schools. colleges. churches than TO
feed them booze and tho things that
wreck their lives and blight them
and assassinate their characters.
You can keep a COW alive on potato
pcclings and brush but she won't
give any milk add when "A COW stops
giving milk, her mission In life ends.
We don't keep COWS Cor company.
Listcui Col James Anderson start
ed the first libraries IN the United
Stptcs He had a circulating library
OF 400 volumes. lie gave the books
out To the little boys Erou'4l I'm the
ncighborhood TO read. one little boy
and a quarter a week got hold OF one
OF those books. read It, II opened
up new view ot life, inspired him,
sir. That little boys name was An
drew Carnegie. He poured OF; mis-
money like water. built libraries
I throughout the length and breadth
1 OF the land.
oh, educational advantages were
never greater than today. Books
I were never cheaper than today. They
| hang Ike leaves on the trees. Print
| ing presses are runni fg night and
/ day and the telegraph throws the
nuws Of the world ON your doorstep.
| at your breakfast table, for IA few
/ pennies a week. The newspapers to-
day are a better college than Abra-
/ ham Lincoln had-just your news
| paper. The limbs on the trees OF
/ knowledge hang so close to the
! ground that any boy or girl with an
I ambition can walk and pluck the
/ fruit and bear away its treasure.
For a hundred years nobody mad
sense enough to make luciter
match. Twelve OF the greatest in,-
| ventions the world has ever known
! was given to us within the last 100
| years. Today we've got electricity;
today we've got the telephone; today
we have the telegraph, the trolley
and the wireless. the super-dread-
| nought, and the submarines, sky
| scrapers--oh. look at that electric
searchlight piercing the midnight
SKY like a fiugerl
They are getting more money to-
day out OF the dump heaps around
the mines than they mined from the
mines 90 years ago. Electric power
today is generated from rubbish
swept from our city streets. Gar
bage Ia turned into fertilizer thai
sells for $50 a ton. Sawdust Is
turned into fireproof flooring and
dinner plates and factories are rur
by gas generated from their owr
soap suds. and the blood Of the bull
eating grass in the pasture today
by chemical process. is turned int
n buttoi and they sew 1t on my Goa
or on your dress. Aniline dyes arr
I made out of coal tar, and cigaret
| out OF cigaret stumps.
I why they can go up an alley AM
pick up n shirt that billy goa
/ would pass up like a hobo would
1 woodpile; they can turn this int
4 glucose and turn the glucose int
\ booze and turn the booze into me
/. and turn the men into hell.
4 Lisen young people! The hurea
2 of education OF the United state
Z SAYS there are 100000 men iD th'
y country over 80 years OF age. TweR
! million Of them had n cOmmo
3 school education; 100000 OF thof
Z | can neither read nor write; 6bO,O
\ Of them graduated from high school
, $4,000 from universities and col
/ lege. There Is published in thi
: country a book entitled who's VIII
| in America" II contains the name
Of 1900 odd men who are In III
headlight and spotlight Of their call
ing and OF the 1900 who had
. common school education, one i
5000 has his name in that book; O
, the 2 OOO, 900 that could neither rea'
nor write, not one. and OF the $50,
600 that graduated from high school
, one in four hundred; and OF tn
! $40, QUO VINO graduated from univer
! stiles and colleges, one in AZ has M
Z name embalmed in the pages OF tina
A book.
4 Somebody asked me the other dsl
Z "What Is educationF'
p Here Is my answeri IL you have
7 better one, / wish you'd give 1t
me Education Is knowing what 20
O want knowing what to do with
. after you get it.
!, 60 To the Country.
g Six million boys in the Unite
q states drop OUT OF SCnOoi AT lne en-
II OF the eighth grade--but what! A
:, eighth grade education gives thel
> 600 chances 70 one TO win. III the
y 60 on through high, II Is increase
7, to 2,2O0 chances to win. II they s
u on through college IL is increase
900 70 one to win; but many wou
u rather work and wear clean coll
e at $40 a week and call II a sala'
r. than TO crawl into a pair OF overall
n and q flannel shirt and go out In q
p country and work for S25 Wet
and call II wages Hence. tn
Ie hang and loaf they hang around o
'r cities and they get into bad cor
n rany, until 9S per cent Of the erin
et nails In this country come from q
- cities Nearly 100000 men a.
h young men in jails. penitenuari
ID and rcformatories are sent the
rs from the cities our cities a
a whirlpools where destiny hurls "
on 10 mako either of you a hero
hi a devil,
h. Boys. so TO the country oh, lea
I'd 20 be expert dairymen; help to sa
Z the lives OF 100000 children who Z
OF annually from impure milk, dol
,u loaf around the cities Just 20
dazzled hy the glitter and the gla
OF the light. Don't butld a chs
or acter Nike "A woman eok"s a cal
[ heard "A woman tcll anOtl