Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-08-22
NEWS, VIEWS
AND GOSSIP
College Walters, Easy Marks
and Just Judges.
(By Glenn Guernesy.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-The late
Robert G. Ingersoll once let fall
few remarks touching on and APP
pertaining to the fool friends of
reform movements, whose words and
actions served to hinder the cause
with which they had allied them
selves, and who ARE so friendly that
you can not kick them"
! am convinced that the disciples
OF MARKHAM Socialism, and even the
"opportunist" Socialists who are prin-
cipally concerned with political
methods, entertain much the same
tender feeling for the Christian So
cialists. These opponents of kid
gloved reform, who insist upon open
ing the social revolution with prayer,
will again occupy the limelight next
week, when they will hold general
conference at Ashbury park.
The Rev. John d. Long, ID. D.,
pastor of the fashionable Parkside
Presbyterian church of Brooklyn
all ministers who get into the news
papers are pastors OF fashionable
churches-is the leader in the Chris
tian Socialist Fellowship movement.
For some months he has been en-
gagged In organizing the Socialist
ministers Of the country and hun
dreds of reverends and right rever-
ends are now said to be enrolled on
the membership list of the fellow
ship.
Among the rank and file of the red
flag followers of New York, however,
the accession of the holy men is not
viewed with any noticeable degree of
graduation. Socialism, those unre-
generate ones insist, is an economic
system, and not a church. They fear
that with the growth OF the move
ment, internal dissension will arise,
and the party win be divided into
warning sects of Baptist socialists,
Presbyterian socialists, Mother Eddy
socialists aud high church and low
church socialists.
And the seoffers inquire, more or
less pertinently. why there shouldn't
be Christian republican party or
Christian democratic party? The
horny-handed sons of toll insist that
the ministers come out flat-footed for
Karl Marx and Eugene +. Debs and
drop their affection OF select superb
GRITTY, under penalty OF being de-
prived of their red tags.
College Walters.
Those ambitious young men who
work their way through college by
the sweat of their brows are often
the recipients OF efrusive commenda-
tions and sympathetie encourage
ment. in these sentiments, however,
j. Davis Secor does not share. Mr..
Secor owns summer hotel out ON
Long Island, and recently tried the
experiment of employing l5 worthy
young college students as walters.
His opinion of the ability OF the
youngsters In question may now be
expressed in a row of jim-dashes.
MIR. Seeor asserts that his student
walters were assiduona in their at
tentions to the young lady guests.
but that the men and the older
ladies found It almost impossible to
attract the attention OF the scholar
" grub singers. Moreover, the din
ner dishes we're left unwashed while
the eollegians spent the evenings ON
the rustic bridge in the dim distance
singing love songs 10 the fair listen
eTs, For all Of such grievances. and
for the additional reason that the coll
leges the young men attended hadn't
taught them the difference between
a golf stick and soup ladle. Mr..
Secor fired his collection OF student
walters and made a solemn vow.
Never again.
Easy MARKS.
Humorists OF the daily press fre-
Qaently take occasion TO pass sar-
castle remarks upon the bargain