The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25

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Crude went up a quarter.
And the Independent refiner
said, My Godl II something going
10 stick the hook into me and drag
mc w over those black locust
stumps again? As he looked back
over that TRAN ~ blood and hide ans
hair. 10 wasn't an encouraging pros
pect.
was that roal problem? Tha,
was q real problem Are VIC going
to solve 1t here2 Brother O'Don-
nell promised this afternoon he
would. he is going to try TO at least.
lie is going to tell us what Va going
to happen and tell us az the time we
need u. YOU know It doesn't do any
good at all 10 write a prescription
for disease with which a man has
died and drop II into his coffin. He
should have had that before he died.
We are last hoping and praying thai
you fellows will flx II so we will
get this information before we die.
That 81 "a real problem.
II am going to tell you something
about another problem that hasn't
a thing to do with the refining In
dustry. / don't know that | ought
to inject Il here, but | am an old
fashioned monkey and ! Just feel
that when an opportunity comes TO
man hn is false 20 his respousi-
bility and false TO his opportunity II
he doesn't bring in this one problefuI
n has no relation 20 the indcpend cnt
rcfiner OF any other rrfiner except
ing as this problem lies funda-
mentally at the bottom of all prob
lens
Il see before mo men here who
have done marvellous things In the
commerce OF this cuustry aud In
building the civilization OF this great
land Of ours. when the commerctai
history of this generation Is written,
there are men here whose names Will
be written large on the pages OF that
history. men OF National and inter-
national influence.
II Just wonder fellows, q am
| talking to you now as Just a human
biepg) whether we fellows who are
engaged In business are remember
| ing that this great civilization OF
which we boast In held by US az II
[ heritage We are just IA little In
ciincd to believe that the things we
| build, the things we hold are ours
| they belong to U.S. because we cre-
ntcd them or because at the present
/ time we own them or because at the
present time we manage them, tor-
getting that these things that we
/ hold are Just ~ pebble on the great
beach of human achievement, just
] y pebble, "A little more brilliant IN
color, a little more noble In Its col
oring, perhaps than other pebbies,
jut lust a pebble.
I'VE are lust bit inclined to for
get that we received all these things
we hold' from generations That nave
gone that are now gone back to the
dust from which they came, ana
when we think in terms of this won
derful civilization that has been
built and in which we are living l
lust wonder II we take home TO our
selves the question as to whether
or not we as individuals are stand
ing on n plano and have established
a standard OF character which as
sures that that part which we have
in civilization will lift 1t instead oil
dropping It down.
"This civilization is growing. We
are glad to think II is GROWING
reaching out always to greater
heights all the time. We sometimes
forget that this bunch OF men must
be better men than the men from
whose hands they received the
civilization OF which they are jus'
trustees.
THAT is one OF the problems you
have to solve. and one OF your re-
sponsibillties. That hasn't anything
TOT do with refining, but 1t is ono oi
tho responsibilities that every one o.
YOU individuals have, to know tha'
YOU stand on higher plane than
the average man stood before you.
"The next responsibility Is t'
know that the coming generation
the boys and the girls growing VI
about YOU. and into whose hands you
must resign at length the burdens
which your failing hands compel yot
To Law down, are men and womer
of higher type than you, ana wher
you resign 20 them THIS c'vihHatiot !,
YOU win have to reach up to give u
to them instead of reaching down
and unless that IL true then ou
civilization ia on the down grade
"I doubt whether | ought to say
. this today but was just encouraged
to say IL because | read in YOU
, paper this morning. the Chlcag'
, tribune, some accounts OF thing
; that happened here In your owl
vicinity that mean that the SAM
Influences that worked death ant
. dissolution to the civilizations tina
have gone and are now covered witt
, the dust of ages are at wori
, among us.
1T don't mean to tell you that thi
civilization is going down, but / az
, mean 10 tell you that you great III
. fluential men. YOU men or powe
, and YOU men of vision and you mel
of influence, have got TO put you
a