The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-25

4 SOutn IN the BullulnE OF tne INatlOn,
Sam Dale's heroic ride was re-
corded, and deserves recording here.
Sam Dale was born in Virginia in
! 1872, and later lived In Georgia,
near what is now Greensboro. AS
| the family lived IN a stockade to
keep off the Indians, the boy be-
came familiar with Indian warfare.
| When grown ho was appointed n
| United States scout. and soon be-
came noted Indian fighter. At
Randon's landing on the Alabama
river. he killed seven Indians single
handed, with only slight injury TO
himself. In February. 1914. he COM
manded n battalion Of Kentucky vol
unteers against the Creeks, and in
the following December performed
the fete that places him in the ro-
mantle as we'll as the heroic chron-
lcles of history, by riding his pony.
| Paddy" from Georgia to New Or
| leans in seven and a half days, bear
ing dispatches to General Jackson.
Besides this one outstanding act.
Sam Dale was distinguished citi-
zen in a general way. After the war
he became a trader at Dale's Ferry.
Monroe county, and was appointed
colonel Of militia and to other offices
OF the county, In 1917 he was a
NJ Misslssippi territory, and in the same
year was member of the first gem
eral assembly OF Alabama territory.
He served, in both the Alabama leg
islature and in that of Mississippi,
and was member of the commits
sion to locate public roads from Tus-
caloosa 10 Pensacola and on TO
Blakely and Fort Claiborne.
The Alabama legislature once
passed an act expressing gratitude
for Sam Dale's services, and named
one Of its counties after him. In
1881 he was appointed with another
to remove the ChoCtaws. He spent
some time in Washington, and his
fragmentary descriptions and judg-
Tnents of Andrew jackson, Calhoun,
Webster, Benton, Prentiss and other
great contemporaries are said to out
weigh in value many of the elaborate
efforts of biographers and histor-
ians. Dale stands on the topmost
round OF the great American from
tiersman. His narrative Is a golden
book for our youth, but my en-
cyclopedias have no record of him,
while Paul Revere occupies half a
column in all three.
One may have the same experience
in the case OF the Mayflower and
the God Speed and Susan Constant.
The last two ships were the frail
craft that brought the colonists TO
Virginia, where they established the
first permanent English settlement
in America in 1907. This occurred
/ 2 or 13 years before the Mayflower
put out from Plymouth, England, on
its voyage to our northern shores,
but in those same reference books
half a column is bestowed on the
history of the Mayflower, while the
good ships of the south have no place
of themselves at all In the data on
Captain John Smith, they but get
honorable mention in passing.
People OF the south grieve over
the fact that her heroes are little re
ferred to and little known.
The victorious side OF every con-
flict writes its history, while the de-
feated veterans beat their swords
into plow shares and attempt to re-
store the devastation and feed the
hungry. The fact that it is largely
northern heroes that every schoolboY
knows by heart Is not so much die
TO any lingering antagonism of sec
tions, however, as 1t Is to the ignor-
ance and Indifference OF the general
public, 1t must be conceded that in
the south Lee ana Jackson are re-
peatedly lauded to the neglect of
other generals, other heroes, who de-
serve certain homage, which only
illustrates that the eulogizing OF
some few and the overlooking of all
others, Is a weakness the world over.
Some time ago reporter wrote a
brief story about n newsboy. an or
phan, who was keeping himself in
school, and stood at the head OF his
class. There wasn't a single alluslon
to Abraham Lincoln In the story. but
when 1t was published this headline
was above 1t:
"Our city has young Abraham
Lincoln in its midst"
Three months later the same re-
porter ran across another poor boy,
a cripple, who by hard work was
doing a similar creditable act, and he
wrote him up, again with never
thought about Abraham Lincoln, and
the story was headed
young boy has same stuff that
Abraham Lincoln was made Of"
LAnGoln's example, as someone has