The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-24
City Regulator
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.

suggestions are MADE
To the EDITOR Of the Eagle:
! I heard a good many criticisms of
preachers, but please tell me what cur
homes and our city would be like if it
were not for the minister. In times Of
distress, of death and sorrow, when you
want a sympathetic friend, who but the
/ minister does your heart appeal to?
Some Of you chaps that are hurting
anathemas at them viii have one in your
/ home before the daisies bloom. Be good
one day in the week go to church today,
listen attentively to the sermon and you
Will no doubt come home feeling better
about the preacher.
We all have our frailties and our ideals
| torn to smithereens. Some Of US have
lived here a long time, so long that we
! have grown from young manhood to
middle age, or older. Some Of US have
not forgotten the precise young men
who never smoked or danced, attended a
| theatre, but walked the straight and
narrow path. So too. would their sons
who were to grow up around them, but
/ also one can see on our streets any day
1 in the week, some of those ideal sons,
making smoking stacks of themselves,
besides being well rounded up with many
other twentieth century accomplish
ment that their daddies did not possess.
How quickly a fellow, after holding
/ Office and gets turned down, can turn
! reformer. They get spasms in malig-
nant form. Then that other fellow, who
after repeated attempts. fails to get the
! people to appreciate his worth becomes
a reformer, which usually takes pious
turn. and the glibness with which they
use the name of God shocks an ungodly
man.
| If were Mr.. Governor Stanley or the
secretary of state would not interfere
/ in the way suggested to defeat the ends
| Of the law passed regarding the school
! boards of the state. One wrong won't
right another wrong. if it is wrong.
! There seems to be two sides to that
school board question.
The Bible, dear old book. how It IS
quoted, misquoted and misinterpreted.
/ Go TO church and hear a fine discourse
! preached from a text Go down on the
| street corner next day and you viii hear
! the same quotation from Weary Willie,
| to confirm his argument, interpreted
exactly opposite to that Of the divine.
! ! have lived in wicked Wichita for
/ twenty-five years, and more than one
/ half of that time in the business portion
! Of the city, and the first fist fight 1 wit
| messed in that time was last Monday,
| between two citizens. As usual no police
4 man to be found and a crowd of men
| gathered around and not one to raise
| hand or voice to stop it.
| Men grow in brain until 50. few until
/ 70. After that they return to childhood
rapidly. They seem to be able to grasp
! one idea at a time. That one seems to
! consume them and they are without
reason or judgment. They have no
charity for or patience with any one who
! does not agree with them. suffering
! community would much prefer that they
| chew more gum and less rag.
No, I don't think thar any one in
Wichita is growing wings. You need have
no fears Of entertaining angels unawares
among Wichita people.
It is remarkable how eager some people
are TO become martyrs with their
mouth) In western parlance" on the
/ cut and shoot-shoot Off their mouths
and cut around the corner.
I wonder if the West Side public i'm
provement committee viii get up enough
from the hospital north to Central ave
nue..
I understand that one Of the fellows
who is crying out so loudly and villifying
men in this community, men into whose
! presence he would not be allowed, IS an
ex-minister. He seems so glib of tongue
and ready Of pen. VIII he please ex-
plain why he is not still preaching the
gospel?
Who is going to administer the affairs
Of this city the next two years. The
men who pay its taxes and have lived
here for one-half or more of their lives
and expect to remain here the rest Of
their lives. or men and women, some Of
them who have not lived here a year
and will not be here a year hence, and do
not pay a dollars taxes. Business men
and taxpayers, it is for you to decide.
The next two years of Wichita history
/ will be crucial ones commercially, and
win require wise heads, honest hearts and
hands, men who are not seeking pelf
and plumber for themselves and friends.
Answer to John A.-Parsonage is a resi-
dence property belonging to a church,
hence church property and exempt from
taxes the same as the church.
would take the signs down on the
bank of the river-"No fishing allowed, ="
or L would enforce the law
1t is expected that college students are
gentlemen and ladies'. Making all due
allowance for exuberance Of youth, and
that the Paramount car Is a public We
hicle that anyone IS permitted 70 ride on
who pay their fare. Paramount students
can't AFFORD 70 have it said people viii
not ride On that car because the students
arc in it
The late John J. ingalls, said the higher
the state OF civilization the better blue
grass grew. In don't know that he
meant individual families but think a
good rule in that case i the higher the
state OF laziness the less the amount Of
blue grass is seen around their premises.
I see the editor Of the Eagle has written
a very complimentary editorial about Mt