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

5000 miles OF sea. he tircd Cf being
a noncnity. he wants TO be a factor
In the world. and that's why, my
friends. 50 many OF our fathers and
grandfathcrs there away cross the
sea came 20 America: that's why you
stand when we sing My Country
'Iis OF Thee!" and cheer. This Is
your land. this ls your home. This
Is what makes thc di.forcp, be-
tween an acorn and Stone. be-
tween a man and a monkey;it IA the
quality in you that Will develop
and grow.
Not 20 grow means 10 bring your
self under Just contempt and scorn
OF those who do grow. 4 midget In
body can be turned into financial
account In a dime museum but n
midget IN morals a. a carbuncle on
the neck Of the body polite.
Thore are 80 many Of them today. OF
50 little usol
Like woman come down 20 break
fast one morning and she said TO
her husband 81 had a dream last
night. l dreamed l attended an
auction where they were selling
husbands. ono man brought $500
and another man brought $4,000.
WHY" he said "thc man that
brought $4,000 waa like NE. wasn't
he?"
She eaid. MEN like you sold three
bunches for a nicklc."
You Aan't look up to a runted
mind and runtcd morals unless YOU
are married TO the runt and then
every time you DO Il under protest.
The only man that God ever con-.
demned was the fellow who hid
his talent in napkin and wouldn't
give tt a chance to grow. lie said
TO Gideon. GO up, thou mighty man
Of valor," and when David threw
the sheperd's crook down In the
pasture and picked up the crown
that had fallen from the head OF
King Saul aud put IL on his bean
| and climbed MP on the throne and
sat down, God said TO him. David,
/ you're a man after my own heart
God likes to- see a man leave the
misty valley. climb the sunlite hills;
| leave the subway OF life and go up
on the roof garden
The humility that wants to re-
| main little, simply because it's
easier 20 loaf under the shade, suck
| lemonade through straw, fan
/ yourself and say, "Oh. amt Il hot?''
| rs something vastly different,
young people. from that magnificent
manhood who will pun off his coat,
sell it, and and with the money buy
"A sword and then leap out into The
arena OF the worlds conflicts and
drive that sword to the very hilt IN
the purifying ahscessos that bore
their way toward our spiritual and
moral yitals TO leave your younG
men and young women pieces OF
driftwood out upon tho high
seas OF lust and OF passion and OF
wreckage.
Must Have Desire First.
80 he's dead. is he? What com
plant? No complaint
Now, you've got to have n desir,
first TO grow You must feel youl
need like a miser wants money
like a hog wants slop, and like O
politician wants office. Feel youl
need of It! It's u good deal lik,
watering q horse. A bowlegged
pigeontoed, orosseyed. freckledface
redheadod kid with stone bruis'
on each heer can ride a kentuckl
thoroughbred to water but a college
professor with mutton chop and Al
diplomas can't make the hors
drink If he doesn't want to drink
So we can build colleges ant
schools and universities, tax the peo
pie, spend billions of dollars, put al
education within your reach pu
y
you have no ambition to be decent
then that isn't anybody's fault bu
your own. We can't do any NOR
than furnish you the opportunity
you haven't got II in you, then yo
are at fault.
Its a good deal like the youn
man who says, II will never mar
ry" but when some girl with hal
Ike a ravens wing. large, lustroui
brown eyes set far apart In an In
telligent forehead, a straight Gree
ian nose, teeth like lodges of pear
behind lips of coral, with neck, ltk
the swan--Good night, nursel
when some girl like that crosse
his path, he will fall so deep In Low
with her that his breastbone wi
stick out two inches. II some fel
low doesn't cut him out inside d
, six months, he will be looking 70
I flat, lacking down carpet, hans
} ing up pictures.
You let the desire come and the
will drill tunnel throuRht III
, mountains. You have to have a de
sire.
Somebody says. How are you &c
ing TO get Il? 2" "Well you might as
me how I think tack would fet
= in a keg of nails IL a tack coul
feel and sollloquize. think I'll
tack would say: I'm not going I
be fool enough to be tack all m
life. I'm not going to be contente
until I am as big as the blgge;
spike I'm that barrel"
will tell you what to do. Go wit
! people bigger than you are; biggC
In mind; bigger in ambition; bii
! ger in morals. Go to college. Rea
, good books. Go 10 school. Get a
introduction OF yourself to yoursel
In Gods name, young people, don
20 with anybody that will assass
/. nate, murder and electrocute ever
good, high, noble thought that eve
struggled for birth to get you 20
, decent. Don't you go with dirt
/ sinking bunch Ike that!
! The devil has teacher In ever
man that will cuss or hit the booz
I A diet OF dime novels viii make
4 highway robber and a gunman o'
4 OF anybody. That's what they wi
\ do. Some boys in Chicago used
e rendezvous in stale beer joints ar
1 back alleys, read dime novels an
4 they went out and stole from Il
s street carbarn $4,000. They had
< kin man TO get that paltry S2,O0
y Four OF those young men, the oil,
e est 21, dropped from the scaffo
a with ropes around their necks az
@ another one Is doing a life term
a Ta1iat rap{fppffary All for "A Daltl