Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 3, February 1918 Page: 62
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BOB SHULER'S FREE LANCE
of the new year by dancing himself to death. After
the ball was over and after he had danced continu-
ously through the whole night, he dropped dead
from exhaustion among his hand-clapping admirers.
Now isn't that gorgeous! What a perfectly won-
derful feat performed with his feet ! We are sure
that one of the most perfectly beau-u-u-tiful firal
ohferings followed this hero to his resting place that
ever attended the honored body of a great champion
of a nobie cause. And so it is that the dance as an
institution is affording martyrs who are willing to
lay down their lives in its behalf. Thousands have
surrendered character, virtue, purity, manhood and
womanhood, but only recently do we find high-
idealed patriots who are willing to die for the
"kitchen sink" and "fox-trot." Soft be thy slum-
bers, Lewis of the pattering feet ! May you rest
well after the high kicks and low dives that marked
your final climax on the fateful night! In the
meantime, Lewis, if you meant to further promote
your manhood and advance your character by tne
modern dance route, we are sure you and the world
are better off with you dead than alive. Congratu-
lations, Lewis, your fitting demise is no doubt a
source of great joy to clean society in the little
village of Chicago!
THE RT. REV. DR. R. L. RYBURN, of Purdon,
Texas, has written a former rather loud-smelling
Governor of Texas, assuring him that he has been
much wronged by the people of Texas and that a
sense of justice anat right on the preacher's part
makes it necessary for him to support this same
well-odored politician for a third term at Austin.
This preacher says he is a prohibitionist and is
especially long on christianity and pure religion. I
have no comments to make. Comments are unnec-
essary. When the angels shed their wing feathers
and I see them singing and sizzling in the fiery pit
of hell, I will have found a fitting parallel. Come
here, Judas, old boy, I want to apologize to you.
You are not the only one by a long shot.
THE ANTI-RELIGIONISTS ARE SWEEPING
OVER RUSSIA in these days of "peace with our
enemies" and anarchy at home, that hang like a
cloud over that country Hard on the heels of the
traitorous desertion of the Russian Republic and the
expressed willingness to be delivered into the hands
of the greatest enemy civilization ever saw, come
the advocates of religious anarchy, in their effort
to sweep God from the map along with patriotism,
loyalty and every other asset worth while. The
two situations, religious and political, are fit com-
rades. No better time could be found for thefos-
tering of infidelity than this day of anarchy and
lawlessness in Russia.THE AlYERICAN NAVY IS ON THE WATER-
WAGON and there is a reason why. Mrs. Joseph
Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the Navy gives the
reason. A few weeks ago a young officer was court-
martialed for being intoxicated while on duty on
his ship. Later, his uncle appeared before Mr.
Daniels with a protest against the action of the
authorities. Mr Daniels was forced to decide that
the court-martial was just. Then the uncle in part-
ing said. ' There is but one word remaining, my
nephew did not know the taste of intoxicants when
lie entered the service. He was sober and upright.
The government has taught him the drink habit,
debauched him and now disgraced him." Mr. Dan-
iels in speaking of the conference declared that he
could not stand for such an accusation to be longer
made and therefore the navy is bone-dry today.
For the very same reason the American army in
France should be bone-dry.
DRY KANSAS IS AGAIN IN THE LIME LIGHT.
A few weeks ago Gov. Arthur Capper visited one
of the army camps located in Kansas, in which more
than 35,000 soldiers are in training. While talking
with the commanding officer he inquired as to the
number of men ordinarily under arrest and in the
guard house. In response the officer turned to the
telephone, called upon the proper authorities and
inquired as to the number then in the guard houses.
He found that there was one man detained and he
for a minor infraction of some little rule. The Gov-
ernor was intensely interested at once. "To what
do you attribute such perfect order?" he inquired.
Quick as a flash of lighting came the reply "To
the fact that there are no intoxicating liquors within
reach of these men." Suppose you try out Fort
Worth, Houston or San Antonio some bright day
and find to your horror what a contrast is in evi-
dence where our army camps are planted by the
very cesspools of the open saloons!
THE LIQUOR ADVOCATES ARE EVER FOND
of looking up the court records of wet counties and
publishing to the world the fact that crime is les-
sened by the presence of the saloons. If you will
read recent issues of The Seguin Bulletin you will
find the why of such a situation. It seems that they
have no criminals at all and no crime in that county,
if you are to believe the records. True, men cut
and shoot and steal and burglarize and kidnap chil-
dren, etc. For all these crimes men have been re-
cently arrested and lodged in jail in that county.
In fact the jail was bulging with them. But when
the patriotic grand jury commission had gotten
through with the appointment of a proper jury and
that jury had gotten through with its hearing, there
was neither crime nor criminal in Seguin or near- _ _ ; :'
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Shuler, Robert P. (Robert Pierce), 1880-. Bob Shuler's Free Lance, Volume 2, Number 3, February 1918, periodical, February 1918; Paris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1146842/m1/14/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lena Armstrong Public Library.