The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-26

tho southwest FOR the first time. Tic
finds thcerin beauty and molan-
choly and real Americans. And TO
his sensitive finger the pulse OF the
national spirit beats stronger here
than I'm any other part OF the coun-
try.
The distinguished novelist and
man Of letters is gathering material
for n eorics OF articles analyzlug
American life. Last week ho
watched the wheels Of the oil in
dustfy 30 round from the vantage
point Of tho Hotel Tulsa aud with
R. T.. Brewer, Frank Moore and j. J..
McGraw rode out into the fields
about Slick and I'm the Osage 10 see
the motive power that made those
wheels 20 around. IGo finds the
country sombcr but not barren. real
and therefore interesting. lie finds
oil beautiful where tho steel about
which so many OF his tales have
been woven 81 not. But tho cities
out here beyond Kansas city he
finds melancholy
People Here Too Busy.
At loss at first TO understand
why. the novelist analysed that in
tlination TO indigo tint and found
that II was because, as IN tho case
OF Tulsa, "A commonwealth II IN the
making. People are too busy 10
play. The men are VITAL alert,
wrapped up in affairs. The wom-
en- arc. I'm inverse ratio, unintcrost-
ing.
"Underaand me-" said Hergc-
shelmcr, II am speaking in n gem
oral way. Whenever women become
more interesting and more attractive
then men. then that country is done.
That Is true. isn't II, Dorothy2"-
he broke off to turn TO his wlfo and
then without waiting for an answer
went on. half to himself Rome
Spaln--ycs. It's true. The women
OF New York. for instance, are
much better looking. much bctter
dressed, much more entertaining
than the women of Chicago, but |
consider tho east effote. The wom-
en- OF Chicago are more interesting,
better dressed. than those further
west. But the mon OF the west are
splendid. They do things They are
vitality alive.
'You say you are building
commonwealth here. Very we'll
The woman's share in building such
commonwealth Is making homo
and having babies. While the man
at homo ana cooks and washes sred
flannels. by and by they viii have
money ana move TO Tulsa and buy
silk lingerie and wear pretty clothes
and use powder and perfume ana
learn the art OF being charming
They have learned that 40 well in
New York that they overshadow
the men. There they know how to
play. Here you are building cities
and here is the place where the
men of power nre found. II has
always been so. all through history
Hergesheimer and his wife sat on
the meZzanine floor of tho Tulsa
while the writer talked and Mrs.
Hergesheimer alternately listened
and dipped into the New York pa
pers that her husband had galantly
resigned without even 40 much as
n sigh TO mako conversation for
the benefit of tho press. Mrs,
Hergesheimer says she has been
married to her husband for II
years. There IN no reason why she
shouldn't talk about that surpris-
ing fact. Indeed. she, must enjoy It.,
for the slim girlishness and the
youthful blue eyes in the small face
are so DELIGHTFULLY."- not those OF n
life behind her that people must be
always surprised at the Information.
Lots OF "Matcriai" Here.
Is there the material IN oil for
stories that there Is In steel and the
sea for instance, Hergeshelmer was
asked. He was instant with his re-
ply. There Ia rich material In any
thing that Is real and interesting
l.. 1. H.. III Nss.. ..s.t
and interesting as II is somber.
Somewhat 90 he Surprise he has
found out here country peopled
by folks who are essentially Ameri-
can. In the east and the middle
west the national feeling is not
strong because the people who are
native born Americans with Ameri-
can ancestry are in the minority,
But In oklahoma and Kansas he
has found more truly American
atmosphere than he had believed
existed in this country.
He discussed this matter OF ma
tioualism.
81 do not know" he said whether
you have oil senators as yet or not
/ think possibly not. Perhaps you
ntver will have. But 1ouislant. for
instance. has It's cotton senator's
with Louisiana cotton and not much
else at heart. That Is the troublt
with us. The component parts oi
tho country are too loosely knit, ~
cities are too slefish. its individuals
are too mentally slothful TO admit
OF the national consciousness thn'
is fertile soil for tho development
OF the arts and of national pride
Every locality Is for itself. Wha
does Louisiana cotton care 70
PENNSYLVANIA steel2 or California
oil about Minnesota wheat? Moth
ing.
"And what obtains here Is tru
If cities and of individuals. The cit,
and the nation can be no bette
than the individuals. The city AM
'he nation can he no better THAI
'he individuals who make II. Aftc
all. It is n matter Of individual edu
cation. We are too self-seelSing. TO,
self-centerod attach too much I'm
portance TO material things. Peopl
don't want 10 learn, don't want {
think. our major objective
money. As n nation we are mucl
more highly developed commercial
ly we have progressed further, tha
we have In our government. An
Il all reverts back TO the people, (
the individual. We aren't bank
rupt OF intellectual men. The peo
pie do not appreciate and recognlz
them,
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