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LATEST HOME-RULE PEAN
Judged by the meager details furnished
in the cable reports Lloyd George’s plan
for settling the Irish question is somewhat
difficult Ao define. Perhaps it would not
1»e too cryptic to say that as a plan for
home rule it is an anti-Sinh Fein scheme.
For it would not be depending entirely upon
one's own conclusions to believe that the
British premier's more immediate concern
is to frustrate the aims of that truculent or-
ganization with home rule as a more ulti-
mate prospect. In his speech in the House
of Commons he seems to have dwelt upon
the necessity of defeating the Sinn Fein-
l ers; if he said much about the home rule
plan as such the cable dispatches omitted
to quote him fully on this subject.
As The Licht observed months ago. the
Sinn Fein movement has done more than
any other Irish agency to defer the day of
real home rule for Ireland. Now this is
more thoroughly apparent than ever before.
The British premier strongly’ implied in his
recent speech that from the British stand-
point the defeat of the Sinn Feiners was
of more immediate importance than the
question of home rule itself.
But while Lloyd George's plan contem-
plates reservations which will make the
British government subjectively responsible
for Irish affairs in effect it provides for
an - objective transaction which Americans
' might define as “passing the buck.” It calls
for the establishment of two legislatures in
Ireland “with full constituent powers to
create a single Irish legislature to discharge
all powers not specifically reserved to the
imperial parliament.”
The Associated Press report on Lloyd
George's speech says that “the question of
uniting jhese two Irish legislatures into one
body rests with the Irish people themselves
the consent of the imperial parliament not
being required.” This would relieve the
British government of the responsibility of
reconciling the traditional differences be-
tween the two religious parties whose anta-
gonism for each other was the principal
i problem before the Sinn Feiners injected
themselves into the controversy.
That the British premier prefers to let the
difficulty revert to its original status in
which the opposing religious elements were
the principal factors trusting to them to
compose their differences serves to em-
phasize the importance as he conceives it
of eliminating Sinn Feinism from the gen-
eral problem.
COMPLAINING TOO SOON.
After reading all the complaints and re-
criminations with which the coal operators
received the President's plan for settling
» • the strike one can hardly escape the con-
clusion that they have “hollered” before be-]
ing hit They are saying that the settlement
is unfair to them although the settlement!
has not been made. Only a plan of pro-'
cedure lias been formulated and the opera-
tors themselves will have as much say-so in
the practical application of that plan as will
the coal miners.
Nor is it at all clear that an increase in
the price of coal is a foregone conclusion
as Dr. Garfield former fuel administrator
seems to think. Whether it was a mistake!
to go over Dr. Garfield's head is an inde-'
pendent question: it cannot affect the out-
come of the plan of settlement in its practi-'
cal workings.
For the commission which is to make an j
| agreement between the miners and the o;>era-
K tors can reach no final decision to which
F any of its members object—and both the
operators and the miners are represented
on that commission. Any decision must be
unanimous. If it should be proposed to
grant the miners an increase in wages in
K excess of fourteen per cent the operators'
E representative will have a vote that will
K count no less than the vote of the miners'
K representative.
It will devolve most largely upon the rep-
H". resentative of the buying public to bring
e about an understanding between the miners
M and the operators. He is vested with the
Kf power of veto so that Dr. Garfield's warn-
s ing against a collusion between the miners
THURSDAY.
and the operators can' hardly cause alarm—-
unless the unfair assumption be made that
the public's representative on the commis-
sion will prove recreant to his trust.
It is entirely possible of course that the
price of coal may be increased. It is possi-
ble that the operators would agree to in-
crease the wages of the miners above four-
teen per cent in reciprocation of the min-
ers' vote for an increase in the prjfe of
coal. But then the public's representative
with the power of veto would apply a
double test: He would determine first
whether the miners were really entitled to
such an increase—and here the cost of liv-
ing would l>e compared with their wages
under a fourteen per cent increase—and
then he would determine whether after al-
lowing the greater increase ui wages the
operators could make a fair profit witnoig
increasing the price of coal to consumers.
It is natural to assume that the operators]
fear the application of test affecting their |
profits. If they really believed that they]
were entitled to the present margin .of’
profit they would have nothing to fear
from a possible increase in the wages of
the miners. Being entitled to their present
profits which .could be maintained only
by a corresponding increase in the price of
coal if the wages of the miners should l>e
increased they would have only to submit
their case to the public's representative and
rest assured of a decision fair io all parties.
The only alternative assumption would be
that they distrusted the public's pepresen-
tative. *
Philip Gibbs the famous English war
correspondent has written a letter for pub-
lication in which he deplores the constantly
growing dislike of the Americans for the
British and asks the reason why we are
less favorable disposed toward the British
than we were at the commencement of the
war.
To the majority of us it will come as a
bit of news that • we are hostile to the
British at all or that the dislike is growing.
We ha've been so busy with our reconstruc-
tion work and with fighting the high cost
of living that we have given little thought
to the British.
It cannot be denied that there is. deep in
the American mind a feeling of dislike for
the British. This is especially true of the
generations that have arrived at adult years.
Presumably much of this is due to the
school histories which depict the British of
the period of the Revolutionary War as
examples of monstrous injustice as indeed
they were —when the policy of their gov-
ernment is considered. A feeling of dislike
that has entered the mind of a child es-
peciallv when that child does not come into
contact with the real British of today is
practically ineffaceable. It is implanted so
deeply that it will end only with the life of
the person who holds it.
Then too there is at the present 'day a!
; strong feeling among Americans that Great]
Britain is not doing justice to Ireland We
realize that the Irish question is largely if
not entirely one for the British—the Irish
are included in that term —to settle for them-
! selves. It is not an affair in which We have
any right to mix directly. For all that how-
ever. even though we do not express our
opinion we have the opinion and it loses
none of its strength because of the fact
that we keep it to ourselves. Somehow
the majority of us believe that Ireland
never has been given the chance that has
'been offered to Canada and Australia
which are practically self-governing na-
Itions. And just because Ireland has never
been given this chance many Americans are
] prone to nurse a grudge against or rather
i a dislike for the methods of Great Britain.
Gibbs in his letter says that the American
soldiers and the British never really frater-
nized —which all of us know is true. He
seems to believe that this fact is due to
dislike. This is probably going too far. We
did not fall in readily with any of the na-
tions of Europe. Our soldiers greatly ad-
mired the martial achievements of the
French but they did not come home with
any great admiration for the French. The
chief complaint against them if that they
seem to have an aversion to the bath.
Possibly the French may have an aversion
to us because we use the bath too freely.
Such things are matters of custom and
neither nation is to t>e censured because it
does not fall in love with another people.
The Americans in Europe got along much
better with the Canadians and Australians
than with other soldiers and why? The
answer always has been: “They are more
like us.”
In that sentence is probably found the
solution of the entire problem. The British
are not “like us” and the French are not (
"like us” and therefore there i$ a lack of I
the real feeling of comradeship. .
We do not particularly dislike the British
—but we have no immediate intention of at-
tempting to pump the Atlantic ocean dry.;
; We are well content to leave it where it is. l
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THE ANARCHISTS’ .\fONEY.
Another popular theory about social un-'
nest received a jar with the round-up and
:deportation of Alexander Berkman. Emma:
Woldman and some two hundred others of;
their ill:. We have been accustomed to think]
of social unrest in connection with extreme
'poverty. Foreigners come to this country.!
Hive here peaceably until their dreams of I
(becoming millionaires overnight have been
I shattered and then because they lack thel
ability or understanding to compete with]
Inative Americans who amass great for-
* tunes begin to preach overthrow of the
DISLIKING THE BRITISH
government. That has been a popular Con-
ception.
Or maybe the trouble is traceable to pre-
arranged schemes of anarchists who have
grown to hate all society because they were
oppressed in some foreign country —say
Russia. We imagine them coming to Amer-
ica with long hair and lean purses—just
enough money to get by the immigration
authorities. This conception fits more near-
ly the case of Berkman Goldman et al.
But we have assumed further that such
aliens continue in poverty after they reach
the land of opportunity—and consequently
continue to preach anarchy.
An ‘inventory of the wealth carried out
of the United States by the recently de-
ported anarchists would estop any sym-
pathy which might lie accorded them by
those who hold that poverty sometimes ex-
tenuates crime. Although the country is in-
jcalculably better off in the moral sense
| without their presence it is poorer finan-
Icially by about half a million dollars by
’ reason of their deportation.
This wealth however was not equally
distributed among these malcontents and
preachers of communistic doctrines. One of
them is reported to have had ss°°° ’ n cash
“on him” when he boarded the “ark.” Some
had Jess than that but it does not appear
that any one of them was poverty-stricken.
' Berkman himself is quoted as saying that
the per capita wealth of this bunch of
anarchists was $2OOO.
Where did they get this money? They
did not have it when they came to the
United States it is safe to assume: because
it is known that most of them were pro-
fessional agitators who collected “funds"
for their propaganda and many of them
had comparatively lucrative avocations in
relation to their income in the benighted
land of their birth.
'They were not a part of this country
although it was in this country that they
first learned the meaning of comparative
affluence. They turned against the govern-
ment and the social institutions of the only
1 country on earth that had ever afforded
them a decent competence.
It is not the poor people of America
who originate anarchistic plots but advan-
j tagu of* their poverty is taken by persons
who make a living out of anarchistic preach-
ments. It would not be surprising to learn
that the $500000 which Berkman. Gold-
man et al. took out of the United States
came from the pockets of the gullible poor
who think they see in the plans’ of the
anarchists an opportunity to improve their
lot. With the anarchists out of the way the
poor will have a far greater chance to de-
velop the ability and the enterprise which
are prerequisites to realization of those
dreams of wealth with which America is
provetbially associated.
New Jersey' and Rhode Island have the
■right spirit— -at least they indicatd that they
mean to have it.
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Irrespective of party affiliations most
anyone will admit that General Wood is
good presidential timber.
OO
It is a safe guess that no dove bearing
an olive branch will be sent out from the
“ark” of the anarchists who are being de-
ported to Russia.
oo
It is the contention of some of the pros
that prohibition will empty the jails apd in-
sane asyluihs. What are the jailers and
keepers going to do for a living?
OO
THE BOOK.
The day Is a book and the dawn and the sunset
are rovers:
Tlie day is a wonderful wonderful volume for
lovers.
And God is the author and I who am reader for
hours
Of beautiful tales of the riven the meadows the
flowers.
Ob I would have read on forever unmoved
• through the ages
■Had I not discovered your heart like a rose in the
pages!
JANETTE’S HAIR.
By Charles G. Halpine.
O loosen the snood that you wear Janette
Let me tangle a band in your hair toy pet
For the world to me bad no daintier sight
Than yodr brown hair veiling your shoulders whit?
As I tangled a band in your bair my pet.
It was brown with a golden gloss Janette ''
it was finer than silk of the floss my pet
’Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your waist.
Twas a thing to be braided and jeweled and kisfud.
Twas tbe loveliest bair in the world my pet.
My arm was tbe arm of a clown Janette
It was sinewy bristled and brown my pet
But warmly and softly it loved to caress
Your round white neck and your wealth of tress
Your beautiful plenty o( bair my pet.
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Your eyes had a swimming glory Janette.
Revealing the old. dear story my pet.
They were gray with that chastened tinge of the
sky
When the trout leaps quickest to snap tbe fly.
And they iuat<*b with your golden hair my pet
Your lips—but 1 have no words Janette—
They were fresh as the twitter of birds my pet.
When the spring is young and the roses are wet
With the dew drops in each red blossom set.
And they suited your gold-brown hair my pet.
•
O. you tangled my life in your kair. Janett#
’Twas a silken and golden scare my pet
But. so gentle the bondage my soul did implore
The right to continue your slave evermore.
With my fingers enmeshed in your hairfi my
pet. •
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Thus ever J dream what you M:ere. Janette.
With your lips and your eyes and your hair my
pet:
Id the darkness of desolate years I moan
And my tears fall bitterly over tbe sttfne
That covers four golden hair my pet.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
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the policy outlined therein ia endorsed
by the publishers of The Light.
HE DIDN’T LIKE IT.
To the Editor f It a pleasure to
read your editorial “A Bill of Rights.”
It was so radical and so extravagant
in its statements. The ’'Stars and
Stripes” has well said that more figures
and facts aud less buncombe and hul-
labaloo would be better for tbe public
and all concerned. By reasou of the
contrast your article clearly brings
out tbe Master's saying: "As ye would
that men should do untu you do ye even
unto them.” Perhaps your concluding
paragraph attempts to convey the same
thought. • However "The best way in
which to protect your own rights” is to
protect them especially when "the other
fellow’ is not deprived of his rights”
but on the other hand has deprived
you of some of your rights. It is quite
true that "Wlien the protection is uni-
versal aud effective you stand no show
to lose.” but until then and so Jung
labor is deprived of its just rights so
long does it have the right to protest.
Let 11s have a real genuine industrial
democracy. ' Make the world safe for
democracy”—religious political and iu*
dustrial.
Pessimism's Cost
By 11. Addington Bruce.
(Copyright PJPJ by the Associated
Newspapers.)
Recently I came across a remarkable
editorial in a medical journal. Its sub-
stance wax an urgent warning to physi*
ciaus never to be pessimistic in their
attitude to patients.
Pessimism it was pointed out seacts
to the disadvantage both of tbe ]>essi-
mistic doctor and of the patients in bis
gloomy sphere of influence. It tends
to lessen the number of those willing to
be treated by him. Aud it makes it
doubly difficult for him to cure those
he docs treat.
Indeed the more fact that he ex-
presses doubt as to the outcome of u
patient’s illness may insure a fatal out-
come. At all events his 'doubt is more
than likely to keep a patient ill when
be ought to be regaining health.
In proof the writer of the editorial
in question cited the striking testi-
mony of hr. Charlen L. Greefle who
speaking to a Seattle medical audi-
ence said in effect:
"I have booir particularly impressed
by the importance of the physician’s
attitude with reference to heart dis-
orders. I have seen many sufferers
from heart disease abandoned by their
attending physicians as hopeless show
marked improvement under suitable
treatment and live iu comfort through a
varying number of years.
•'(’oiiseqmntly I am satisfied that no
one is justified in pi enouncing a cuse of
heart disease hopeless until the breath
of life has actually left the body.”
True of heart disease this statement
juay with c^ual truth be applied to near-
ly all forms of disease. To pronounce
a case hopeless may actually have tbe
effect of. making it hopeless whim re-
covery would otherwise be possible. Pes-
simism is a potent force in raising the
death' rulew. •
Also pessimism lias much to do with
raising the poverty rate. If doctors
need to be warned against pensimism.
so do patents teachers and all iu any
way concerned in developing the mind
of others.
To take a gloomy view’ of a boy’s
or girl’s mental jM>wer to insist on the
hopelessness of his or her ever accom-
plishing much may be to render accom-
plishment impossible.
The world is full of men and women
incompetent and poverty-stricken be-
cause of the deadening influence of the
pessimists Cho chilled their souls in
youth. Y’et under proper guidance and
encouragement these same incompetents
might have triumphed over personal
defects of a really crippling sort.
Pessimism in fine is one of tbe cost-
liest of human vices. It is a failing
which all should avoid for their own
sake and for the sake of everybody
with whom they come frequently in con-
tact. It blights it handicap v it
kills.
Movie of a Man and a Gum Machine
I’EKKY P. YOUNG.
I
On the 20th of December iu 795 Pupe
Adrian 1 a Romau patrician who
graced his position by bis benevolence
and humanity died.
Iu 1292 on the 26th uf December.
John Baliol. king of Scotland per-
formed homage to Edward of England
at Newcastle.
Ou the 26th of December in 153 U.
Zahir-Edd in Mohammed Baber founder
of the Tartar Empire in Hindoostan.
died at the age of 47.
In 1776 ou tbe 26tb of December the
battle of Trenton N. J. was fought by
General Washington with 2000 Amer-
ichns against Col. Gotlieb Kall the
Prussian coinmandcr with 1060 Hi*
sinus. At that time the cause of Amer*
icon independence was almost hopeless.
The Hessian troops employed by the
English were garrisoned at Trenton.
The English held posts all through New
Jersey. Washington know ing the habits
of the Hessian troops planned a sur-
prise attack early in the morning fol-
lowing Christmas Dny. He crossed the
Delaware at midnight and before the
sun was up fell upon the garrison of
drunken and sleeping Hessians who hail
spent Christinas Day in carousals and
were unfit to fight. The battle lasting
half an hour was an overwhelming vic-
tory tor the Americans. Not an Amer-
ican soldier was killed or wounded aud
only 292 of the Hessians escaped.
In 1832. on the 2Gtli of December.
Stephen Girard a wealthy Philadelphia
banker who was a native of France ami
came to this country as a cabin boy.
died. After rising to be mate of the
ship he left the sea to become a mer-
chant. He prospertMl greatly and final-
ly became n bunker of great prominence
He bequeathed an estate of more than
JH'.OOO.OOO to charity.
On the 26th of December in 1837.
George Dewey admiral of the Fnitwl
States Navy was born nt Montpelier.
Vt.
This Is a Real Gamble
By'Jchn M. Oskison.
Here’s one of the best gambles ever
offered:
City of Paris 5 per cent bonds. 1
saw them mlFcrtised the other day by a
firm of inve^ment bankers nt $65 per
500-frnnc bond "price subject to with-
drawal or change without notice.”
A statement in the advertisement
said: "Sdlne bonds nre drawn for re-
demption nt premiums ranging up to
1.660.000 francs. The issue is redeem-
able by six drawings per annum over a
lieriod of 60 years.”
Here’s your gamble: A certain income
of 25 francs n year on an invcstuient of
$65. this income to continue until the
bond you hohl is drawn for redemption
by the Frencu < ity\ authorities.
Here’s your gamble: A certainty that
as the financial situation in France
swings back to normal the bond you pawl
.$65 for will increase iu value until it
leaches $95.
Here’s your gamble: A certainty that
your income of 25 frams a year will
continue to represent more it nd more in
dollars—that this income will rise in
dollar value from about $2.66 to $4.80.
ns the exchange value of the French
franc gets back to normal.
Here’s your gamble: A chance that
when your bond is drawn for redemption
it will carry with it a premium of 1.-
600.000 francs. That of course is a
very slender chance—say. about the
same chance you have when you invest
in the stock of an oil company or in
gold mine slid res. You will have a bet-
ter chance however of drawing one of
the many smaller prizes which nre hand-
id out at tin perbslieal draw iir>
prizes that scale down from 200000
francs to 5 francs.
Here’s your gamble: That the city of
Paris will remain on the map that its
people will continue to recognize tbeir
obligation to pay the city’s debt.
Here’s your gamble: You bet. when
you buy that bond that the France with
whom we fought to whom we have
loaned tremendous sums; the France of
age-long frugality and proved industry
will recover from the financial strain of
tbe war.
Do you cure to take n chance? Per-
sonally I should prefer this sort of n
gamble to betting on the ponies playing
the roulette wheel or even taking a
flier in oil
Tbe loss of his job is npt to punc-
ture a man s vanity and let a lot of
egotism run out.
Copyrighted 1919 bj Tbe Tribune Assoc. (New Y’ork Tribune.)
Gaiding Stars
By John Breck.
Christmas is the one time of the year
when we remember our debt to tbe
stars. We recall the three wise men
who came searching for "he that is
born King of the Jews. For we have
seeu his Star in the East and have
come to worship him.” We remember
tbe shepherds trom the hills to whom
that star was a sign. Dimly we real-
ize how much more intimately people
knew* the signs of the heavens be-
fore we lost them behind the flash of
electric lights.
In those troublous times they i.ius 4
have found great comfort in the or-
derly march of the planets in the sense
that there was a law underlying the ex-
istence of all created things. Their at-
tempts to divine this resulted fn that
hazy mass of superstition and theology
which was known us astrology. Yet
even this eften bore odd germs of truth
as well.
We road of one Thales back in 600
B. C. who read from the stars an
augury for a good olive ycai mid most
profitably cornered the market on Hint
nvcessnry commodity. Y’et Ilia effort in
this direction so perfectly compre-
hensible to our own day resulted in the
foreknowledge of an cidipse of the sun
mid in some very practical geometry
in our high school text books of to-
day.
Indeed men’s interest in the stars was
essentially a practical one. Prin-
ciples off mathematics physics and me-
chauics came from their ntltmipts to
fathom the secrets of the heavenly uni-
verse. Tbe North Star guiding light
of marincis revealed our world.
This is the eaxiost one to use. Its
deviation with relation to the earth's
orbit is less than that of any other and
cun be most easily computed from its
place among the other stars of the Little
Bear. From its different angle with
the horizon nt different points on the
earth’s surface Aristotle bark in 2MMI
B C.. substantiated his conjecture that
the earth was round. Hbw all mankind
could watch a lound sun rise each
morning a round moon sail across tbe
midnight sky. ami still doubt it. seems
incredible. But still more iacredible
is it that Ptolemy a hundred years
later made a remarkably dose calcula-
tion of the earth’s circumference by the
aid of this same star. It was left fur
Columbus to prove.
This was latitudinal measurement.
Essentially it required no more com-
plcx mechanism than a staff a plumb-
line and a measure for the angle be-
tween them. Cros^-staff astrolabe
quadrant and sextant arc successive
developments of tlie^ same principle.
Longitude was impossible to measure
befere the invention of spring-winding
clocks and more intimate acquaintance
with our familiar star the sun. BiJ
th© bold mariners who made the c »n-
-quest of th? seas grew nueannily ac-
curate at estimating it by dead-reek m-
ing finding the speed of their east and
west travel by the number of knot*
paid out on the jog-rope while they
measured half a minute by a sand-glass
or even a snajch of song.
Columbus himself had an astrolabe
to measure his trusty star a rude com-
pass and a lodestone to rub it-with
if ho felt any deubc of its accuracy.
The most crucial moment of bis career
came when his crew discovered that no
amount of nibbing could make it r-mat
to the accustomed >ide of their infallible
guide. Aud conceive the terror of Amer-
icus Vespucius’ crew when he snihsl
southward along the Argentine c< ast un-
til they lost sight of it on the hoti-
zon! When it failed their faith in
an invisible God was sorely shaken.
We stake our gifts from the heavens
so completely for granted that we for-
get whence they came. Have the.' no
other scends to tell us? Ask that uf the
silent inscrutable morning star.
Where To Go.
i Grand Opera House —"Listen T/ister”
John Cort's New York musical comedy
[ success with June Roberts.
I Majestic—Vaudeville bill of seven
' acts headed by Madame Olga Petrova.
I Empire—Constance Talmadge in "A
Virtuous Vamp” and Harold Lldyd in
"Captain Kid’s Kids.”
Princess Theater —Lopw vaudeville.
Five acts and a feature film.
j Royal ?ater —Pantages vaudeville.
Five acts and a film feature.
Queen Theater —Motion pictures.
Pearl Theater —Motion pictures.
Strand Theater—Stock Musical Com-
edy.
DECEMBER 25. 1919
A Laugh or Two
RcpreMentitivi' Kirby of ArkauM*
tells this one. "I was being shaved
the other day when a grizzled Hiap
—i 0 eaptain's itnl-
B' forni came in. H»
saluted smart l-
and seated himself
iu the chair next
to ms' own. 'Hair-
cut.' he said iM
gruff tones. 'HoX
would you like it
cut?’ tbe barhe*
asked. The cap-
tain who was bnldisb. answered gruf
fer than ever: ‘Uuc up the uairs and
number off to the right. Odd num-
bers each want an inch. Dress smartl-
with bay rum and brilliantinc. Then
dismiss’."
The shadow of the arch enemy next
' doer appeared in the doorway of the
I humble kitchen.
"Mrs. Joues!” she
<■ xc I a m cd. with gTy
। folded arms “let *‘ i i
'me tell you that JL-Af)
that child of yours
is badly spoilt." J|f\j jty y*
"Oh! Get away U
with you!” snapped fl
Mrs. Jones testily. •
scenting another L 1
.complaint as to her young hopeful's
: Conflict.
"Well."rejoiued the aggrieved ncigh-
■ bor “if you don't belieVe me just
। come out and see for yourself what
the steam roller's done to him."
At the conclusion nt the school term
prizes' were distrib-
•SY'SC uted. When one c
Vr ’J r l’ ll l'ils returned
home hi s mother
r' 'Jr ehauced to !«■ en-
tertnining callers.
/ Cxrl 7' "Well Charlie"
’ M / asked one of these.
< d"* vou win a
1 ^3 ’ prize?”
। — "Not exactly^ l
I said Charlie “but I got a horrible
mention.”
The sweet young thing was asking
questions.
"What are those ships?'* she In-
! quired.
I "Thein's men of JUS
war” replied the
old salt. 7
j "Oh! And what
; arc the little ones
ijust in front?" ^(1
' T h c m's just
tugs.” I I A
"Oh. yes nt
course : tug»of war. —1
; I've heard of them.”
Dibbs—Where are you going in such
ja hurry?
! Gibbs—To the police station to get
-1 a warrant for my
wife's arrest.
Pao "On what charge?"
”1^ "Rocking me t 0
slcn)>.”
"You can't been
LL7 JjwrNSr • y° ur wife arrested
fry OfTg for rocking you to
\zZ_ sleep.”
* -1 “Can't eh? You
suould have seen the rock.”
Pointed Paragraphs
- - *»• ..
Ik laughs be t who xiuiles tbe most.
There is no ©xruKe for the man who
lias to a child.
It is ©iirpriNins how slow a watch
can run in church.
The truth is nil right but so many
people arc ashamed to tell it.
Even n deaf man seldom overlooks
an invitation to take eopetbiaig.
When a man begins to blow ia his
money a lot of people get wind of it.
Yes Rafalo the right kind of ex-
perience is worth all it costs.
The secret of success lies in doing
well what you can do and cutting out
what you cannot.
Just because a girl doesn't love a
man is no sign she doesn’t want him
to make love to her.
There must be something wrong
with the vision of some people who do
their duty as they see it.
How many people do you know—in-
cluding yourself—who would cause thei*
neighbors to shed tears if they moved
away?
By BRIGGS
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