The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-28
Will he resist Mr.. Lloyd Csorss's hypnotic influence?
Entrances Deserve Consideration

fortified city could be estimated by
the fewness of its gates. With tho
coming of peaceful times the gate
ways took a form adapted for ready
exit and entrance, though the pos
sibility OF defending them was never
forgotten.
A fine example OF a Roman city
gate dating from the time OF Con-
stantine, still stands at Treves. 1t
is four stories high. has ornamental
windows, and is decorated with coll
umns on each story. The chambers
In the stories above were used in
connection with the civil admins
tration.
Who that has once seen can ever
forget the gateway to the Garden
of the Gods with snow-capped
Pixies Peak in the distance. those
immense ard unnatural rocks tow
ering on each side the drive that
form the gate and make the en-
trance to the grounds complete?
Who can forget Caiifornia's
Golden Gate. Virginia's natural
bridge, New Mexico's big sandoval
cut" or, so sweet inc effective.
the entrance to the old southern
yards and garden, the arched gate
way framed with clinging rose,
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welcome and delight?
Entrances to homes, cathedrals,
castles, the walled city, are made
imposing and characteristic of the
building or premises. but have you
ever noticed cemeteries. how they
are so often back of every thing,
as II were, and only to be found
by following a well-beaten path
a path that tells of the many
heartaches and downcast daily Wis
itors that come that way?
Don't we love our dead enough
to clear away the weeds and tin cans
and arrange the fence and gate ar
tistically, a gate hat opens on a
wide and beautiful street where
those that drive by may be i'm
pressed and speak reverently of the
Pioneer builders and othe. splendid
characters that lie within the tomb,
and where the forethought, devo-
ton and sentiment expressed and
the keeping OF the entrance and
drives may have its effect upon
the thoughtful?
So much good ome from inn
pressions that elevate, and none
more lasting than the attention we
bestow on cur dead. Why not con.
vert these horrid tin-can entrance
ways into parks, with trees and
flowers and lawns t greet and ease
the h~eartaches, a bridge of signs
turned TO n passage of comfort and
cheer? There are people who scott
at sentiment, but take away senti-
inent, and with II goes half. II not
all. that - good in our civilization.
Some artists prefer old and dingy
frames on their pictures, thinking
1t adds to the merit Of the picture,
but l have always thought that
the beautiful frame could not take
away any Of the beauty caught
within.
Yes. IN entrance should be In keep
Ing with what YOU enter. Halt the
inspiration and peace and content
of a perfectly-kept cemetery or
park is lost unless the approach is
symbolic and imposing.
We recognize a building by the
insignia or sculpture about the
door. Even the old barroom had
a key painted in front or, n glass
foaming ana running over with
beer. The barber shop has its
striped pole, the theater its mask,
the library its urn and candle, and
the church its steeple and cross.
Permit not the entrance 10 ceme-
teries 10 carry for its insignia the
tragic symtol-Forgotten!