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THE HOUSTON POST;' MONDAY -MORNING. AUGUST 20 1923
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HOUSTON TEXAS MONDAY AUGUST 20 1923
The Plea For an Extra Session
The president Is said to be listening with an open mind to the Im-
portunities of Western republicans who desire an extra session of con-
'gress to devise measures of relief for the wheat growers now In dis-
tress with a large surplus for which there Is no present demand.
The plan which seems to be favored most is for the government to
fix a legal price for wheat by purchasing and storing the surplus tho
price to be at a figure that would substitute profit for the loss of which
the producers are now complainlug.
The bare possibility that congress might at the present time em-
hark upon such an unsound policy ought to be reason enough for the
president to put behind him any thought-of convoking congress.
Governments are not and of right ought not to be ordained to pro-
duce profits for any class. That is one of the prime causes of the
plight of the wheat growers at present. They are being exploited for
the purpose of adding to the profits of manufacturers. The protective
tariff which has proven of no avail to the wheat grower is enabling
the protected manufacturers to exact of him exorbitant prices for
everything which he has to buy.
It is well enough to say that the wheat grower is as much entitled
to a law-made profit-giving price as the manufacturer is to a law-mad
embargo which smothers competition and gives him a swollen profit
at the farmer's expense. It is true enough but rather than cure one
wrong by setting up another. It would be far better to abandon the doc-
trine of privilege take the government out of business entirely sim-
plify Its operations and lighten the crushing tax burden that rests
upon production.
The ills of industry can not be cured by greater draughts of the
deadly nostrums which have brought distress upon it. The safie rem-
edy is to relieve agriculture of the leeches that suck its life blood
lighten taxation and to co-operate in some helpful way to rehabilitate
Its ruined foreign markets.
The wheat growers will be leaning upon a broken reed if they rely
upon demagogues to do these things. It Is the way of the demagogue
to promise worthless remedies that appear plausible enough to those
In distress to pander to the prejudices of the Ignorant and to foster
every futile policy which contains a promise of political support.
The president is supposed to be a conservative of the ultra school
and surely he will see that the politicians now demanding an eitra
session are more concerned in rlaying upon the misfortunes of the
wheat growers than in deviling sane constitutional remedies which at
best could bring relief but gradually.
In other words the extra session is requested more for political
purposes than for any economic benefit that could be devised for the
farmers. Agriculture really needs the remedies of true statesmanship
not the treatnv nt of demagogues.
The proposed extra session would mean nothing tangible for the
wheat growers.
Gen. Allen on "Party Exigencies"
General Henry T. Allen in a lecture the other day before the In-
stitute of Politics at Williams college made this interesting state
ment: "However strong may be the demand of party exigencies there
comes a time when statesmanship and public welfare demand first
consideration. This is not a time when party welfare should take prece-
dence over the very serious demands made by national and world
welfare."
The occasion for this observation was the general's discussion of
the Ruhr occupation and he predicated it upon a declaration that the
United States should take the initiative in the solution of Europe's
economic and political problems.
It can not be denied that General Allen in giving party exigency
subordinate place in the scale of national duty has sounded a lofty
note but ideal statesmanship is one thine and practical politics Is an-
other. As much as we might wish for the Ideal. It Is not likely that
party exigency is to lose first place In the purposes of those who ad-
minister our government.
Occasionally a statesman appears who pays little heed to party exi-
gency but the pol.ticians outnumber the statesman and they are apt
to have their way.
Party exigency is not what politicians think is the best thing to
be done for the country but what they think is the best thing to main-
tain the strength and ascendancy of the party. That 1b the politician's
business.
The politician does not attempt to ascertain what is just and right
but rather what the majority thinks is right or desirable and the ma-
jority does not reach a conclusion through the processes of pure an-
alysis but through considerations of self-interest and a multitude of
emotions and. frequently prejudices.
A council of statesmen might easily determine policies of wisdom
and justice but politicians can not rely upon such considerations.
They must strive to be in touch with the popular view for only in that
wav can they secure the approval of the majority which is the first
essential of party ascendancy.
The leading financiers and economists long ago have reached def-
inite conc'.us.ons as to the most effective way to rehabilitate business
and industry thm'tehout the world: publicists are not far apart as to
the moral oMUar.ons resting upon the United States in the present
crisis. It e;j;d not be difficult to convince the intellects of the politi-
cians and br.r.r t'.orn to the same way of thinking but it is idle to
reason with the ;oi.t;rians until the masses themselves are convinced
and convincing th- rr.a?ses is a slow process.
The parties wi'.l not vgnore the exigencies whatever may happen to
the country or the. world.
The repub'.i'an party will yield anything or embrace anything which
promises to attract thf support of the multitude and that means pan-
dering to tr.f matt-rial interests of one group to the emotions of an
Other to the rad.' alism of another to the prejudices of another. This
Is a rather mean thing to say of the republican party but General Allen
may be assured it is wholly true. Moreover it is quite as true of the
democratic party as it is of the republican.
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Early Morning Observations j f English Statue of Roosevelt
George M. Bailey.
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When naturalized citizens named Kabotch-
nick asked to hare their patronym changed to
Kibot representatives of the ancient Cabot
family objected that it might embarrass their
family record. The descendants of Captain
John Smith are not that snobbish we bet.
An Illinois democrat is going to run for gov-
ernor as a wet We don't like to see demo-
crats hanging on to a dead issue that way but
we suppose anything to get the office is true
patriotism.
The president is discussing with his party
leaders in congress the legislative program for
the approaching session of congress. Our no-
tion is that the new administration would be
shrewd not to rely too much upon programs in
the Sixty-eighth congress. Our forecasts indi-
cate storms.
Allan Benson says Henry Ford told him last
year that there would be another world war
and that the United States should get in and
clean them all up. We are not one of Henry's
defenders but this sounds to us it sounds to
us it sounds to us like a etc
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A. J. phllpott In tha Boston Globe
J
The showers on the coastal plain are prepar-
ing the way for fall gardens and visions of
turnip greens potsicker radishes young onions
and snap beans rise before us. Bishop Heber
had it down about right when he said "every
prospect pleases."
Old Ireland is all right. When they scrap
the way they are doing now it shows that the
democratic spirit is militant and victory is sunt.
Urban civilization and its incidents and ac-
cessories constitute the "overhead" of the pro-
ducers and we are slipping to Reuben Hicks
the quiet tip that it will keep him strapped till
kingdom come.
The Jeffersonian Philosopher makes a noble
effort to keep our democratic leaders in the
Jeffersonian corral but it's no use to talk rrin-
ciples to a patriot engaged in the wild-eyed ' rf he PPle anii hlch endeared him to so
brand of reform when he begins to sniff the nla"'r
cats.
An English dramatist has writteo th hest
play about Lincoln. An. English sculptor
Bryant Baker has just completed a lifesiie
statue of Colonel Roosevelt which many peo-
ple think is one of the most characteristic like-
nesses of the colonel yet modeled.
Mr. Baker however though English born
and bred is very much American in his ad-
miration for Colonel Roosevelt as he is in his
admiration for other notable Americans and
tor things American in general. He has had a
studio and worked for several years in Boston.
He also is well known in New York and
Washington and at present he is engaged in
some commissions in the latter city.
He has done a notable bit of work in his
statue of Colonel Roosevelt. That distinguish-
ing characteristic of the colonel his aggres-fiveness-i-is
splendidly portrayed in it. It is
the colonel in his prime on the rostrum mak-
ing one of those speeches which served as a
challenge to his countrymen and sometimes
to the whole world expounding some doctrine
or driving home some rhetorical assault with
all the force that was in him.
He stands easily and yet as if ready to
spring; his right arm slightly tense and fist
flightly clenched. In his left hand he holds
one of those manuscripts which he seldom
referred to when he was speaking. For he was
1'lways so full of his subject that he didn't
need a manuscript.
Yet this manuscript aids in giving a certain
dignity to the figure and a certain importance
to the whole idea embodied in the pose. The
physical power of the colonel is not in the
least minimized by the dress coat thrown wide
open and hanging in folds that serve to em-
phasize the strength of the body of the man.
The head is strong well modeled and sets
firmly on the powerful neck and shoulders.
And the pose is characteristic. In fact the
sculptor has stamped the entire figure with the
characteristics of the colonel pugnacity in
t-ice eyes mouth and body and yet a fine dig-
nity in it all.
In the figure the sculptor somehow has typi-
fied and Riven expression to the general im
pression which the colonel made on the minds
Shelby's last bank having bnsted as a result
of the prize fight we take it that the ambitious
Montana town with its pockets turned inside
out now sits in a reflective mood awaiting th.;
coming of winter.
Those who tell n5 that even's will show that
the sacrifices of the soldiers in the world wa-
left civilization upon firmer ground needn't
hand such stuff to us without blue prints.
Alabama is now headed for blue Sundays.
Sometimes we fear that redemption through re-
pression instead of by conversion is not coin?
to cause a jam at the entrance of the Ga'es of
Life.
Still. Mr. Cnolidge. in choosing Slemp for
secretary to the president has not warmed the
cockles of the Afro American heart.
The statue has been modeled by Mr. Baker
tor Mr. Caproni of Boston who is also a great
admirer of Colonel Roosevelt and who pur-
poses to make some duplicates of the figure
t'er several of the institutions of learning in
the United States to be an object lesson.
The two main things in the process are:
First the model which the sculptor makes in
clay ; second the mold which is made from
this model and from which exact copies are
made in plaster. Great skill is required in the
making of the mold.
First some pieces of brass are delicately
inserted in the clay model along a line which
divides the figure into two parts front and
back. The object of this is to separate the
meld into two main parts.
After the brasses have been inserted the
liquid plaster about the consistency of cream
is quickly and skillfully spattered on the
model which cannot be touched yet every de-
j t .ill must be covered. After a thin coating has
j tieen deposited on the model then the work cf
That former Alaskan citizen who died the building up the coating to a thickness of an
ether day and. at his own request was buried in mch cr morc 4ulck'y follows and at the same
fit.onn worth off . .t time the necessary supports tor such a large
. . Lnd heavy bit of work must be provided
' a ."......j u.JViutl LUUIIUJ iU WHICH i II I
he emigrated.
Just too years ago todav Marcos Bozraris.
fficient plaster has been piled on
to insure strength of the mold the whole mass
looks like a shapeless mess of plaster with sup-
ports so adjusted that the weight of plaster
be Greek patriot. ws killed. But not umil he does not injure in any way. or press too
had clouted that infamous Turk who' in his 1 heavily on anv part of the clay figure inside.
guarded tent at midnight was dreaming of the
hour.
cf revenue." Plug the leaks hoys plug th-
leaks. Old Rube Hicks is becoming suspicious.
After the mass has dried sufficiently the
rieces of brass are taken out. Then the back
half is cut in two and the upper part of the
From one end of the land to the other the ' 's removed. This upper back section has
politicians in office are seeking "new sources I lrM delicate modeling than any other part of
w.e nguie anu is in cunscqucucc luc uium
rasiiy removed.
Then begins the work of digging out; great
care is taken that the mold is not injured in
the delicate process. After most of the clay
has been dug out the lower section of the back
is removed and this leaves the entire front
a shell. The clay is carefully removed from
the entire shell and then the mold is all ready
in three sections that are easily fitted together
ar.d into which plaster is poured; and a com-
N'ow somebody is writing on "New Light on
the Private Life of Queen Elizabeth." Fven if
the' bare truth be made known we doubt if it
would shock anybody much in this time.
The Pallas Times-Herald says the prettiest
girl in Dallas is so beautiful that she defies
the brush of the artist and the pen of the poet. ! plete replica in plaster of the original figure
She may scorn the song of the poet hut she
ain't a-goin' to tum her nose up at the paint
"Let's cat out of politics all the bunk." ex-
claimed a Kentucky politician. B-jnkless politics
wouldn't be even near-politics.
Ah! A little reminder from the Internal rev-
enue collector about the third quarterly install-
ment of income tax being due on September 15.
and hell to pay if we default. There is a kind
of courtesy about communications from the In-
ternal revenue collector hut they are not with-
out a palpable trace of abruptness.
Senator Smoot says Europe is moving toward
j a new war. Uncle Sam will hang nut the sign :
j "No checks cashed; no money lent; no good'
I sold on credit; no stock taken in the fracas."
France will find that rattling the saber is at-
tended by little rattling of cash.
Considering the fact that Mr. Hearst pays
Mr. Brisbane only $104000 a year we must say
Mr. Brisbane writes in a rather kind'y vein
about Mr Hearst.
President Cpolidge's Friend
The Boston merchant Frank W. Stearns close personal friend of
President Cool.dE". is widely mentioned as the Fldus Achates of the
new president who w:;i or u; y suh a relation to him as adviser
that Colonel E. M. House is sj; ; osed to have been to Woodrow Wilson.
The country knows very l.ttle of Mr Stearns but Btnee he is the presi-
dent's intimate friend It will have a deep Interest in htm. And prob
ably it will neer have an accurate knowledge of the nature of his posi-
tion as friend of the president.
It is certain that Colonel Housp was always misunderstood by a
large number of journalists and public men. It Is equally certain that
bis ability and intelligence were generally underestimated. A some-
what widely entertained opinion that he exercised a sort of hypnotic
Influence oer Mr Wilson was nonsense of the purest ray serene. It
wasn't Mr. Wilson's nature to be hypnotized and possibly he was more
often than otherwise in disagreement with Colonel House. Further-
more it wasn't Colonel House's custom to force his views upon Mr.
Wilson but it was his custom to speak with candor when his opinion
was invited.
Members of Mr. Wilson's cabinet often found their opinions re-
jected by the president and some of them blamed Colonel House as
;th author of the light regard which the president entertained for their
t Counsel. This was invariably an Injustice to Colonel House. Colonel
House often advised the president to be more tolerant of the views of
members of the cabinet and certainly his counsel was positive for a
more tolerant attitude on the part of the president toward the senate.
(U Mr. Steams Is as intelligent a student of national and world pro)-
Jetna as Colonel House has been for forty years as cautious In his Judg-
tenta. aa unselfish in his friendship and as capable an adviser. Presi-
dent Coolldce la fortunate in having mch a friend at his side.
Another rease-n we are not disturbed is. we
nexer expected from the beginning to freeze to
death in August a month we are more familiar
with than any other having seen more of them.
Some Postscripts
The first railway tickets were Made in 1S36
by Thomas Edmonston. a station master on a
line in the north of England.
Amqng the feminine crowned heads of Eu-
rope the queen of the Belgians is the most ar-
dent and accomplished sportswoman.
Although the Bible has been translated in
part into 725 languages and dialerts new trans-
lations for freshly discovered tribes are always
needed.
The shark sticker a defenseless and retiring
fish takes shelter in the mouth of the savage
and voracious shark but it is not harmed bv
the shark.
The notorrtis. an almost extinct bird that can
not fly hat been photographed in New Zealand.
Only four specimens of these birds have ever
been obtained.
With more than 25.000 members enrolled the
Seven Leagues Club of Seattle lays claim to the
largest membership of any civic organization in
the United States.
Some $100000. all obtained from gate re-
ceipts has been devoted to thr building of tie-
University of Wisconsin football stadium dur-
ing the last five years.
Killymoon castle in Tyrone. Ireland built
alout a century ago from designs try Nash the
celebrated architect at a reputed cost of $400-
000 has been sold to a farmer fur $500.
This Is True All Right.
(From the Toledo Blade.)
Few girls dress for the purpoae of attracting
the attention of their parents.
is the result
Before the plaster is poured in the inside of
the shell is carefully washed with a solution
if soap and wa'er so that the new plaster will
not adhere to the mold.
Money and the Press
By Dr. Frank Crane.
The real question is not whether the money
power owns the press. The problem that wor-
ries us is why does the money power not go
out andbuy up the press.
When a millionaire gets tangled up in a
murder case he doesn't seem to be able to
I'-ep his name out of the papers.
When a trust starts out to buy up every-
thing arid everybody in a certain industry the
newspapers publish the fact.
These gentlemen would purchase and drown
a dog that bayed under their window and
would bribe an obstreperous organ grinder so
that he would not play before their house and
would see that an indiscreet parson was re-i-ned;
therefore why do they not go out and
I urchase the newspapers ami magazines?
What hinBrrs the banking trust and the other
interlocking trusts from quietly getting then
hands on all avenues of publication?
There is a screw loose somewhere.
And the trouble is that the newspaper and
the magazine of wide circulation is and will
remain automatically democratic. These pub-
lications depend upon the good will of the
multitude.
And in the end the multitude is about as
shrewd as the publicity agent for a corpora-
tion. In other words you can fool some of the
people all of the time and you can fool all of
the people some of the time but you caono
fool all of the people all of the time.
It is this law that makes and keeps any great
newspaper comparatively honest. No other
policy will pay in the long run.
It is quite the custom to abuse the press
to declare that it is bought and to refer to it
:.s capitalistic As a matter of fact these
charges .have a specious sound but they are
inherently absurd.
The financier can easily acquire control of
most kinds of business. Bankers get hold of
tailroads woolen factories copper mines and
the like.
It is a common charge that the great indus-
tries of the country are dominated by a few
wealth units.
But the claim that groups of wealrtly men
dominate the press a claim vigorously main-
tained by Mr. Upton Sinclair can hardly be
selistantia'ed.
It is easy enopgh to corner beef or wheat
but it is not so easy to corner ideas or the ex-
pression of them.
(Copyrvht. tqz.i by Frank Crane.)
Yea Help Him Get a "Roll."
(from Ike Philadelphia Record.)
Have another toll and help the farmer.
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Twenty-Five Years Ago
Fran Tha Houston. Peat Fllea.
sasastf wwwww!
H. H. Dickson has returned from a two
weeks' visit in Mexico.
Charles P. Parker of Parker & Archer left
on a business trip to New York.
Middling spot cotton was quoted at 5 l-J
rents per pound.
H. Henke and family left for Canada. Be-
fore returning to Houston they will visit New
York and Boston.
Polemanakos Brothers doing a fruit and
cold drink business On Main street sold their
interests to Booth Brothers who will continue
the business.
There were 10 bidders for the city bond is-
sue of $100000 for permanent improvements.
They were sold at a premium of $6317 together
with accrued interest.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ilfrey gave a pleasant
party at their home in honor of Misses Erette
end Mattie May Ilfrey daughters of W. 0.
Ilfrey of Cedar Bayou.
The Post published a photograph of the sum-
mer home of Judge E. P. Hill at Fort Davis in
the Davis mountains. Judge Hill was one of
the first to discover the excellent climate of
the Davis mountains and predicts they will be-
come famous within the next 20 years
Stat 1 Happenings.
Temple. The assessors' rolls show the tax-
able values of Bell county to be $n;j9.6oo in
1898.
Edna. Cotton growers in this vicinity met
and discussed ways and means of meeting the
menace of the pests now devouring the crops.
General.
Berlin. Nearly all the German papers are
printing articles friendly to the I'nited States.
London. Ambassador Hay who is scheduled
to succeed Secretary Day as American secre-
tary of state is preparing to sail for Wash--ington.
Washington. The interpretation of the sur-
render of the Spaniards in the Philippines is
that the whole group of islands were in-
cluded. Manila. The news that peace had been
made between America and Spain did not
reach General Merritt until three days after
Manila had fallen.
New York. Captain Emil Nunez of the bat-
tleship Cristobal Colon says there is a secret
reason why he did not get away at Santiago
which will come out later. He praised the
American naval officers and said he had made
many friends among them.
Looking at the Municipality
FrPm the Waco Times-Heritld.)
Twenty-five years ago Waco had the alder-
manic form of government to-wit ; The may-
or elected by the whole city and two repre-
sentatives from each ward. We had an ex-
cellent police department. We had an ex-
cellent fixe department. For a city of Waco's
size the streets were in -excellent condition.
The city's every financial obligation was met
as it fell due.
But the Galveston storm gave us something
new that is the commission form of govern-
ment. That form abolishes the wards. It
concentrates power in a few hands and these
few may all live in the same block. Our cit-
izen's thought it a good thing and so they
adopted it. We have five commissioners ;
usually there is a difference of opinion and so
to all intents and purposes three men govern
the city of Waco.
Now comes a demand for a further concen-
tration of power and that is by the election
of what is known as a city manager one-man
government is what it amounts to. Some of
us have tried to persuade ourselves that the
ttunicipality is only a business concern and if
that were true could one man run it better
than several men? Neither federal nor State
ror county government is run after any such
ashion as is contemplated by the city man-
ager plan.
But the municipality is a government; it ex-
trcises police power. To give this power into
the hands of one man is tantamount to saying
that democracy is a failure that we made a
mistake in this country when we abolished
kingcraft; at least that's the way it looks
trom this point of view.
It was true at the beginning: and it will he
true to the end that in the multitude of coun-
sel is wisdom. The further removed the gov-
ernment is from the people the less likelihood
are we to have good government. And bear in
mind the municipality is a government and
the only questiqn is whether one man can gov-
ern better than several men. Really shouldn't
we be discussing the advisability of a return
to the aldermanic form of government 5 Right
1 ow good people three of the wards are with-
out a representative in the city government.
.When we are dealing with a government we
are dealing in politics. Whether aft'airs are
administered by one man or hv a dozen men
tolitics enters into it. Can we trust one man
more than we can trvst a dozen men? That'-;
the question.
The aldermanic form of government is the
assurance that every part of hte city has its
representative and that's the form we would
prefer. But. failing in that we would erect
another ward provide for the election o-f seven
commissioners to be chosen by the entire elec-
torate but no two from the same ward There
would be no mayor save that the presiding of-
ficer would act in that capacity. It would be
competent for the commission to change its
presiding officer at anv time. The office of
city controller we would have continued. The
water plant would be brought under the control
of the commission. Here is where we need
concentration fellow-citizens: wherever the
tax money goes there should be direct super-
vision by the one body the city commission or
the city council.
This paper was ?n advocate of the city man-
ager plan. But the more it thought on the
subject the more did it see that the plan is an
inverted pyramid. It is something that has no
place in a democracy. But we do need to con-
centrate our municipal affairs to bring all
agencies under control of the one governing
body and that body sufficiently large to be
fairly representative of every section of the
city.
Ben Jonson on Misspent Lives
(.Leonard Wool) in the Nation and the Athe-
neum London.)
"What a deal of cold business doth a man
misspend the better part of life in I in scatter-
ing compliments tendering visits gathering
and venting news following feasts and plays
making a little winter love in a dark corner."
This sentence from Ben Johnson's "Discov-
eries" contains a general reflection which every
man who has reached the age of 35 and has
lived in civilized society at any time during the
last 500 years has frequently made to himself.
But the precise and personal shade which
Johnson gives it by the last nine words of the
sentence belong to himself and to his time; the
color with which they paint a commonplace is
not that of Milton or Dryden of Congreve or
Swift Pope or Johnson Wordsworth or Shel-
ley Tennyson or Browning but it Is very near
the shade of feeling which many a writer to-
day attempts "much lets successfully to trans-
late into sentences.
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Just a Rhyme or Two
By Walt Maaon and Edgar Quest
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Retrospect.
As. I sit before my shack old and jaded
gray and bent I am always looking back to the
years unwisely spent; and I view my winding
track seeing things that I lament. Could I
live my life again all vain follies I'd eschew ;
and I would not swipe a hen or compound il-
licit brew; ah the grief of apcient men when
their sinful past they viewl (All the wrangles
and the fights of my dark and stormy past all
the tricks on other wights all the methods
loose and fast come to torture me o' nights
ind to make me stand aghast. Oft I strive to
recollect noble actions 1 have done actions
wise and circumspect actions shining like the
sun and it sprains me to detect and to round
up even one. For my recollection sticks to the
things I would forget to the dark and sinful
tricks that an old gent must regret and my
care-worn conscience kicks till it's reeking with
i's sweat. Happy is the gray haired guy who
can sit before his door looking wilh a placid
eye on the well spent days of yore all unable
to descry deeds that make his spirit sore.
Walt Mason.
(Copyright 1923 by George Matthew Adama.)
Generosity.
"Those poor little boys next door have no
mummy or daddy and no dear Aunt Jane"
said a mother to her little son. "Now wouldn't
you like to give them something just a little
present ?"
"Yes" he replied with alacrity. "Let's
give them Aunt Jane."
Tactlesa Woman.
1 am sorry to say that auntie gives a very
poor account of yon" said the woman to
small girl just home from a visit. She says
ou are 'naughty untidy unpunctual inclined
to be imp .' "
"Does auntie say all that?" broke in the
small daughter. "What a thing to say to a
child s mother I
The Common Path.
BY EDGAK A. ClT.ST.
Oh I shall travel out today
And tread a well-worn lane.
Shall walk a long-familiar way
Out there and back again ;
But though I know the path I go
Today perchance I'll see
Somewhere a new-born rose aglow
To cheer the heart of me.
I know the men that I shall meet
I know the women too 1
I've met them all upon the street
They're old but ever new ;
And it may be a child shall smile
At me along the way.
Or some one e'er I've gone a mile
A cheerful word shall say.
Perhaps the sun shall light a tree
With some new touch of flame
Although this path is old to me.
It's never just the same ;
And I may meet a stranger there
Who'll ask the time of day
Or hear a band upon the air
As soldiers march away.
I know the buildings one by one.
The corners where they turn
But always as I wander on
There's something new to learn ;
And when I leave my door behind
Whate'er the day may be
There's alwavs something new to find
And something new to see.
(Copyright. I9ij. by Edgar A. Guest.)
Just a Mistake.
"Who was that handsome man I saw tn my
husband's room a few minutes ago Mathilde?"
asked Mrs. Makeuppe of her maid. "That was
your husband madame. He used your beaut
fier in mistake for his shaving lotion this
morning."
Sounds Like War Department.
The station master on an Fast Indian rail-
road had been given strict orders not to di
anything out of the ordinary without orders
trom the superintendent. This accounts for
the following telegram sent by him: "Super-
intendent's office Calcuta. Tiger on plat-
form eating conductor. Wire instructions."
Good Night!
Good night kind world good night!
My day is done and I
Have dropped my tools and now
Will lay my troubles by.
Good night hard day. farewell!
I've earned my rest and now
Let darkness robe me and some breeza
Of comfort fan my brow.
Good night! . . . and if I sleep
The sleep of honest men.
May I with honest men awake
To do my part again.
And may I stand each diy v
Strong in the press and see
A day's work fmisht-d l.uking nought
Because of fault ijt me.
So I may come at eve
To rest my weary head ;
So I may earn the rittht to lie
Upon my labor s bed.
Good night kind world "good night!
And may all others lie
Sleeping the sleep that man has earned
Rewarded e'en as I.
Henry Edward Warner in Richmond Times-
Dispatch. Honest Office Boy.
"You're looking rather upset."
"Yes the office boy told me he wanted to
po to his grandmother's funeral. I determined
to go with him."
"Well? Who won?"
"Won? It was his grandmother's funeral!"
The Brute.
When Fthel went round to visit her chum
one evening she found her utterly miserable.
"Whatever is the matter. lily?" she asked.
Lily's face grew longer than ever as she
answerer! between sobs :
"I've broken off my engagement with Jack."
"Never mind Lily" said Erthel comfort-
ingly "he is certain to come round and patch
it up with you before long."
"I don't think so" replied Lily. "You see
I wrote and told him never to see me or write
to me again. And" she added vehemently
"he hasn't even been nice enough to answer my
letter."
The Test of True Gentility
By irvln S. Cobb.
A Louisville saloon keeper years ago was
elected to the Kentucky general assembly at
a time when there was important legislation
pending. He accepted a thousand dollars for
his voje on a certain measure.
The deal was hardly closed when the oppo.
sition came around offering him two thou-
sand. The temptation was strong but the new
member shook his head.
"No gentleman as is a gentleman" he said
"will sell out twicet on the same proposi
tion I"
(Copyright 1923 by the McNaught Syn. Inc.)
COURAGE. '. ' '
Trv tovragt it not th brutal fore t't
Of vulgar herott M th firm rwostr r
Of virtu and of reason. Hi who thinks v
Without their r.id to thin in AttAs of arms
Builds on a sandy basis his rnown:n tr.
A dream a vnpor or an agu fit 1
May mai a coward of him.
wniteneaa. -
Burgess Bedtime Stories
Th Young Chuck Scares and la Seared.
V THORNTON W. BUEGESS.
Friir is catching. Often men
Are quite as silly as a hen.
Old Mother Nature.
When the young Chuck looked out from the
hushes at the head of the Long Lane over to
Farmer Brown's barnyard and saw the hens
tunning about there they had not looked so
very big. That is because they were so far
away. But when having against Old Mr.
load's advice ventured up to that barnyard
the young Chuck poked his head out of the long
grass he was quite unprepared for the sue of
those birds. You see they were just birds to
liim not hens. He knew nothing about hens.
It happened that he poked his head out of
the grass right in front of a hen and not more
than a foot from her. Biddy was starltde. She
was more than startled she was frightened.
You see. she didn't take a good look at the
young Chuck and she mistook him for some
one else. She mistook him for Robber the Rat.
She gave a frightened skuawk and ran.
Now herv are sometimes rather silly. All
the other hens right near began to squawk and
run. They didn't know why they were run-
ref! saw- -AbK
I II 'M ySpf
After him ran that big rooster
ning. It was just because that first hen had
done these things. So the hens were scared
and made a great fuss and the young Chuck
didn't know what to make of it.
When he had first seen that hen close to him
"he was scared himself. But as soon as he saw
that she was afraid of him he lost all fear.
To him those hens were just great big foolish
birds and so he didn't run back into the grass
to get out of their sight. Instead he began to
move toward them.
Those silly hens crowded together and be-
gan to make a great racket. It rather tickled
the young Chuck and made him feel Very big.
It would give him something to boast about
lie longed to tell his brothers and sisters how
he had made these gTeat birds afraid of him.
He wanted to frighten them some more and
so he kept on toward them.
And then from around the corner of the barn
came a bird bigger than any of the others.
This big bird came with his head held high and
in rather a stately way to see what all the
fuss was about. But the instant he saw the
young Chuck a great change came over him.
My. my my I should say sol He suddenly
lowered his head and made all the feathers on
his neck stand out. Then he ran but he didn't
run away. No. sir he didn't He ran straight
toward that young Chuck! Of course you know
who it was. It was Farmer Brown's big roos-
ter. . The young Chuck took one good look and
then he took to his heels. He was as badly
scared as the hens had been. After him ran
that big rooster. That rooster was lord of the
hrnyard and he didn't intend to have any cf
his subjects frightened.
The young Chuck ran straight for an opening
tinder the barn. It looked dark in there and
be wanted to get out of sight. The rooster
was right at his heels and he didn't get under
that barn any too soon. My such a sc; red
Chuck as he was!
(Copyright 193 by T. W. Burgess.)
The next story: "A New Acquaintance."
Flanders Were Better
(From the San Antonio Light.)
A disabled veteran of the World war
was found dead Thursday morning in the
county jail 'at San Marcos. He had
been gassed in the war. and was suffer-
ing from lung trouble. He had been look-
ing for a job Summary of news item.
He fought for his country in the war of
wars; a country of sublime ideals and profound
purposes. He fought ; he faced the enemy's
noxious tissue-destroying ga.ses. When it was
over and victory rested with the country he
had served he was brought home his body
shattered and the fortress of his will power
crumbling. Without independent means of
i-upport his lungs so infected that he was un-
ablr to work as indiscriminately as in the days
ol his strength he sought a job. From his pains
and disappointment he found surcease in a drug
that dulled his keen mind and soothed his
jumpy nerves.
He was looking for a job when they found
him lying tin the street unconscious and took
him to the jail. In the place Where criminals
ftf kept that society may be safe from vio-
lence and humanity fulfill its mission on earth
he passed from life still unconscious of the
kind or character of his fate.
There'll be other wars mayhap; history if
full of them and human nature with its count-
less shortcomings has undergone no basic
change since last the earth arrayed itself m
battle s garb. In future wars the nations will
call upon their sons for service ; some will go
before the call is sounded while others will
wait until their names are spoken. The tide nf
patriotic fervor will rise high or will the men
of that day pause in memory of the fate that
came to a youth who having returned from
Flanders fields amid sounds of triumphs his
body shattered and his mind overtaxed look-
ing for a job and found death in a jail?
No maudlin sentiment this. It calls to the
very heart of virile manhood. It ought to be
a message to those who in first if not last
analysis are responsible for the nation's wel-
fare. Nobody's fault? Perhaps that. But
how about the whole philosopny of the post-
war administration of affairs growing out of
or affected by the struggle in which this victory
crippled young man might better have been
shot down and buried where he fell?
In Flanders fields the poppies grow; they
are emblematic symbolical both a reminder
of and a stimulus to that which is sublime in
hunn hearts. There the honorable dead lie
their deeds and chnr.icter as secure against the
ravages of time as though both were engraved
imperishahly upon a monument as high as hu-
man hands might build.
Was it not an unkifid fate that saved from
such a grave a man who had served his coun-
try in the war of wars saved him for suffer-
ing disappointment possibly acute cynicism
with its suggestion of disillusionment and cast
him finally for death in a
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