University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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Oklahoma comes first in the production of broom corn — a matter of great importance to the domes- tic life of our country The ordinary itchen broom has provided, for a long time, the means of retaliation against the intrusion of dirt into the realm of the housewife - - - Broom corn was first used in the manufacture of whisk brooms, by a Dutchman who incident- ally Was the first brush salesman carrying h i s wares from door to door - - - If cleanliness is so close to Godliness, then the fields of Oklahoma also contribute a great deal to the spiritual Wei ' fare of the country m m room fnoffi

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WtmiSiii iHi Joseph poured precau- tion into the granaries of Egypt — He stored the surplus of the good year as protection against the year of drought — - The poor Russian peas- ant in his primitive strug- gle for existence was actuated by the same motive when he first planted winter wheat, to lie dormant under its snow hlanliet, to he Well watered with the melt- ing snow, and to ripen early in the Warm spring sunshine — It gave him two chances against mis- fortune — - Winter wheat later became one of the great American crops and finally, it has now reached its acme of per- fection i n Ol lahoma where the finest winter wheat is produced S mumrmtm] IB CS KH. CWintGT heat

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HcyRACE QllEELEY SPOKE with in- spired FAITH AND FORESIGHT - THE FORE- SIGHT OF GENIUS - STRONG MEN HEARD- THROUGH THE TRACKLESS WILDERNESS THEY CAME— BRAVING THE UNKNOWN— INTO THE LAND OF PROMISE - THOSE— OUR FATHERS WERE THE FIRST — THE SOONERS - PAYNE FOUNDED A STATE— BYRD FOUND OIL— AND ONE BY ONE THE GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES OF OKLAHOMA WERE DEVELOPED UNTIL TO- DAY WE ARE ONE OF THE SEVEN STATES IN THE UNION THAT IS PRODUCING A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR OF RAW MATERIALS, A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FROM THE PROD- UCTS OF THE FARM, THE FOREST AND THE MINE — OKLAHOMA, lUST PAST TWENTY YEARS OLD AS A STATE, RANKS SECOND AMONG THE FORTY-EIGHT STATES IN THE PER CAPITA INCOME FROM THE PRODUC- TION OF RAW MATERIALS, SECOND IN THE AGGREGATE VALUE OF MINERAL PRODUCTS, AND TENTH IN THE VALUE OF HER CROPS -- OKLAHOMA, THAT IN THE SHORT SPACE OF ONE LIFE-TIME, HAS DONE WHAT NO OTHER STATE OR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS DONE —TURNED A VIRGIN PRAIRIE AND UNDREAM- ED OF MINERAL RESOURCES INTO ONE OF OUR WEALTHIEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS STATES - GOVERNMENT— CITIES — EXPANSION — EDU- CATION, HAS FOLLOWED — THE YOUNG STATE HAS RISEN TO PROMINENCE, AND SWEEPING ON WITH THE HIGH TIDE OF PROGRESS, ALMA MATER SENDS OUT THE FLOWER OF OKLA- HOMA ' S YOUTH TO TAKE UP THE TORCH — TO CARRY ON — TO MAINTAIN THEIR LEADERSHIP