The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-16
A MARVELLOUS rIrrEEN.YEAn RECORD

Oklahoma Is ia years old today
No state in the union can show l5-year
record half no marvellous. No state In the union
Travelled ono-tcnth so Ear In It's first 10 years
OF statehood.
A few days ago our attention was called to
a special report on conditions In oklahoma,
prepared at the request of very large. national
merchandising concern, by OF the best
known financial agencies. Thls report. based
on conditions existing the first OF October.
showed Oklahoma TO he tho thirteenth state In
the union in point OF industrial activity and re.
covery from the depression following the war.
and incidentally, Tulsa was tho third city In
the union.
Those OF us who have shared in the ups and
downs Of the state even from the days OF tribal
government 90 the present hour. contributing
fsebly or nightly ns the may he to the
general good and the rapid development, have
a right to take pride In the knowledge that we
were in at tho beginning and have had hand
in the carving out OF great sef-governing
commonwealth. No man need apologize for
tho result as It stands, however far short that
result may be OF fully attaining the ideal.
When tho great movement towards the uu-
occupied lands that first possessed the name
oklahoma was on, many there were who sin
cerely believed that never could state be
maintained. vast portion OF these lands were
marked desert while rugged foothills and sterile
plains claimed much more. The conflict be-
tween nestor and cattle king went on for years
In the western part Of the state, the one desir-
ing possession that home might be con-
structod. the other fondy believing that the
country was only M for grazing.
Today the cattle king Is memory while
homes dot the landscape. In many sections or
the commonwealth the struggle between heroic
farmer and the frownlng moods OF nature 10
stnl dlsheartening one: but to many. yea hun
dreds OF thousands OF those early pioneers, salt
OF the nation that they were and are. economic
independence has come This is as 1t should be.
Oklahoma, claiming only those years which
mark the age Of adolescence In mou, Views her
mast achievements from an eminenco OF po-
utlcal. economic and financial Independence
that is ample ground for justltable pride.
She, by her wonderful natural resources, her
daring courage In political undertakings. and
her unexampled opportunities. has recruited
her ranks OF loyal citizenship from the aristoc-
racy OF the older sections ana states she Is
thoroughly cosmopolitan.
But the eminence upon which the state now
stands is obscure indeed when compared to the
heights OF fun possibility toward which her
feet are directed impelled onward and upward
By soul or courage and determination. Her
wealth has as yet been scarcely scratched, while
the opportunity she offers 70 investment unrolls
bounteously and. apparently, endlessy
wondrous as has been the first 10 years OF
her life, the next 10 will eclipse In actual
achlevment all that has gone before. And when
men who have contributed TO this mighty ac-
compllshment shall come TO lay them down IN
the last quiet sleep, It viii be honor enough for
their postcrity II they can say we helped build
Oklahoma