The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-21
AMERICA ISLAND
Of INTELLIGENCE
nistrict Governor of the
lions Clubs Speaker
at a Luncheon
IS GREAT ORIGINATOR
Vu Given to World Three
Great Things Strictly
American

r,, United States has given 10 the
.,,iA three great things that are
.-..,v American both in principle
"a p.o. cdurc," George #. South
"A NJ Enid, district governor OF the
,,o,s club OF Oklahoma. told mem
s,., Of the local Lions club at tho
.,.tT luncheon In Hotel Tulsa
thursday
Tho first one ot these things was
49, nublIc school system, Southard
VA Free public instruction was
inheritance from our pilgrim
s,,bcrs who came 10 this country
.'om holland with the Idea OF lib
,rty and Justice firmly implanted
In their minds.
" stand, for Free Schools.
b. Lions club stands out as n
cIyh which fosters the public school
sy,tem. and one that had the well
Ssre of the free education written
ipio us constitution as one Of its
chief planks..
The second purely American in
sillution which has been given 20
Me world, Southard said. was the
civic club. The idea camo from
BENJAMIN Franklin, he said, who
started the first Civic club in 1897
when he started the June club ct
Philadelphia for the purpose of
promoting the good of the pubic
library there.
To-day the idea has grown until
q embraces almost all OF the civil
i7ed countries, and continues to
grow In this country and abroad
with great leaps and bounds. The
proof OF this lies, Southard said. In
their popularity and tho fact that
new International civic organiza-
tons are having their birth here.
Gave Measuring Scale.
Southarh explained that the third
thing which our country has given
10 future civilization was n measur-
Ing scale OF intelligence. which
proved so successful during the re-
cent war and which enabled this
country 10 surprise all Europe for
the high quality OF intelligence and
ability Of our soldiers. The scale
was used on every soldier before he
was taken over seas. lie said that
It showed that there were 40 per
cent OF the soldiers that had an ex-
ceedingly high degree OF intelligence.
ss per cent Of superior intelligence
and IS per cent of high intelligence;
2i9 per cent were OF the average
Intelligence. Our army that went
abroad was made up of So per cent.
The As per cent below average in
teligence stayed on this side. This
was the first time that any nation
had ever successfully used such a
n 4rrlFfnuv q uPnntnG "a Tho
cess OF our boys in action over there
proved, Southard said. that an army
Of such men could accomplish untold
things
Pleads for Education.
Southard made a plea for greater
promotion of education among for
egners and even citizens here. The
The 80 per cent OF tho soldiers Of
our army who possessed high intelll-
gence are the ones who have ad-
lanced civilization, he said, and are
iOrebearers Of the ones who will
carry on the work of civilization.
'On the shores OF the Caspian sea
1000 years ago." Southard stated,
"A man stuck a rod in the ground
nagas field and started an eternal
fire The ignorant natives wished
70 appease the angry of God who
helched fire out of the ground and
olilt a temple of Zoroaster nearby
Since then the man of intelligence
has come along and instead OF hav-
ing an ignorant fear OF the fire has
drilled valuable oil wells into the
ground. The petroleum taken from
me ground has given 10 civilization
VEL light, fabrication and power.
Some American Inventions.
always It has been the man In
lhe temperate zone who has given
% civilization all the power IL now
exercises In the world. It was
rankin who drew lightning from
NE clouds and discovered electricity
\ was Robert fulton who invented
he steamboat, Robert whitney who
invented the cotton gin. AL oil
Wem were Americans.
4 Today a man can sit in his elec.
uieaHy-lghted. electrlcaily-heate
mouse, drink electrically-made cof.
zee, and while he is doing so with
Slt moving from his chair, he car
a5ect the movement OF a ship many
lMl'es out on tho ocean and out oi
wv vision and he can receive voice,
" radiophone from 1000 mile!
way Truly education is 9, grea'