The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-16
BOTH PLAIN AND
FANCY POVERTY
Experience Demonstrates
Wealth Is Compare
tive Term
DEGREES OF PERJURY
The Larger Ones Opportuni-
ties Become the Greater
His Longings

AS ana ,ucurable povcrty-addict I
fool qualified to speak learncdly
and yith authority on any branch
nj fhp subject Of plain or fancy
r,yury. Thus writes Strickland
GHNlau in Farm Life.
Ira o'dcu days, dogs were the
cs1rr uf poverty. ones squalor was
hi direct ratio to ones number Of
ffs..betring livestock. People OF
thrca-dog poverty were snubbed by
peorle Of one-dog poverty, and
srubbei those Of fivc-dog poverty
As one rose in the scale OF |financitl
we'll being, one shed ones canine
cbatclniues as u healthy colt sheds
t,ts winter coat under the spring
Sumo's genial rays.
NOWADAYS. since poodles and
MONS and elbows and pekes have
taken. FOO millionairedom. the place
Of lbe short and simple animals ~
the poor" we have had TO shift our
standards. The presence of huge
numbers % Child-replaclug dogs IL
tho evidence Of only mental poverty
Instead of physical. We have to
find some other way OF determin-
Ing just how poor human beings
are,
M, begin with. poverty is n rela-
fy, matter. with me Il has been
"a matter Of relatives as we'll. All
nv relatives have been poor, with
a worry few transient exceptions. As
automatically disposed Of my last
dog. some Of these kin folks even
began 10 try TO borrow money from
me. But I did not avail myself Of
ahelr offers to mortgage the old
home place 10 reimburse me-. ! re-
F--HL.-- NWa. A. uAWaAaa WHlHh
relatives es n greater evil than in
termarrlaccs. / am strictly opposed
10 the inbreeding OF financial ane-
mia.
Poverty In Three Figures.
have divided poverty, for the
purposes Of this discourse, into two
classes, That those whose ircome
Is in three figures, and)that whose
income is in five. one IS Just rs
poor as the other, though tho for
mor doesn't believe II until he has
risen 20 the latter. Then he kn9ys
It and doesn't laugh about &c. for II
isn't funny to hint Is tragic. !
once had the thrcc-figure kind, and
mine was an aggravated cas- !
grew into the four figure kind and
was poorer. Then I hurriedly ad-
vauced 10 the fiye-figure phalanx
and knew for the first time the real
pangs Of poverty.
When | was in the three-figure
row. life was simple and poverty
was simple. l had a few four-figure
tastes, but they didn't worry me n
great deal. The four-figure things
seemed so remote and so out OF
reach / should have felt as silly as
a baby crying for the moon ought
10 feel. / was reasonably ~contented.
| didn't have certain things, had no
hope Of getting them, and had a
good time. The thrlllingest mental
and emotional experiences We're Iny
wonder as to where was going to
get my next suit Of clothes or some-
thing for the family to wear of the
w~herewithal TO pay the landlord the
twelve or thirteen dollars per month
that he demanded. These things be-
ing arranged, life held no further
problems. Saving was impossible,
therefore, dismissed from my mind.
The idea was to get as'good n time
as possible out of what vas left
OF n Sl2 per week salary after the
necessary bills had been paid, But
all the time, down In my subcon-
scious mind. was accommodating a list
Of things I'd have II | were getting
-" l''l NfFhs NpNlh nave nav
one or maybe two of those things
on SIS per week. but l listed all
Of them.
Finally l arose 10 500 per week,
which put me in the four-figure
class. l tried 10 get all the things
l had unconsciously learned to
giant on a smaller Income. and
found ! could not have them, Dis
content anne in and put his feet
up 10 my gas fire. He has lived
there ever since. We have moved
IN the night when we thought him
doing, but Just as the van driver
was roping our stuff he woke and
came along, lie has had nothing
TO do but to think mp other things
could not buy with whatever in
come l was getting. As in otheE
I!eIds OF ondeavor. the higher we
rise the further we can see. So as