Connecticut western news., 1910-11-10
THE "WURRA WuRRA CLUB"

The fraternal department of THE NEWS is preparing to organize the "Wurra Wurra Club" to which all persons shall he eligible who do sensible things. You don't necessarily have to be an original genius to join the Wurra Wurra Club nor have more than ordinary horse sense. It is essential only that you have the genuine article of horse sense and mani fest it in the ordinary walks of hfe-in the little casual transactions that make up the average days experience, in which the fellow who knows too much. or is over-sophisticated with the wisdom of folly, is apt to prove himself unfit for publication in the list of members.
 The initiation fee is nothing. Any body, anywhere, may join at any time. What is more he may even be made a member without his knowledge or con- sent-the membership, to date, is made up that way.
 Ladies are eligible, too, if they are eligible. The initiation ceremony is impressively simple. A person shows under ordinary circumstance, that he or she has horse sense, somebody notes the fact and sends in the name, and that's all there is to it. ... ', For example, watch two persons meet ing and passing each other on a rainy day, each carrying an umbrella. If they have to pass at close quarters nine times out of ten both will elevate their um- brellas in order to get by, and invariably the umbrellas will bump together Per haps in the tenth case the person on the inside of the walk will avoid such collis- ion by bringing his umbrella down to pass under the caves of the other um. brella. That's the man with the horse sense. Send in his name at once and he's a member of the Wurra Wurra Club forthwith, in good standing.
 Again man greets an oldtime acquaintance who doesn't recognize him If he says: "Hello Jones. Don't you remember me? I'm Jim Smith, ]" tag him at once for the Wurra Wurra Club. He has horse sense. But if he insists on holding Jones' hand and makes him guess who he is, pass him along. He's not eligible There's no limit and no restriction tc the field from which members may be impressed into the Club. The membership roll is open to the man or woman who on meeting a per son limping, refrains from asking, "Are you lame?" Or the man who doesn't say to everybody he meets on 8 cloudy day, "It looks like rain," Or the pedestrian who keeps to the right hand side of the walk and doesn't force those he meets to execute the balance your partner" and "half right and left" be- fore they can get by-all such, and those ing horse sense, are entitled to member. ship in the Club, and the list is now open for candidates from anywhere and every. where. The man who has horse sense enough to recognize horse sense when he sees it, is welcome to the ranks.
 By means of the secret password which is "Wurra Wurra," any member can tell at once whether any other person is member, in the dark as we'll as in the light. A considerable number of mem. bers have already been enrolled for manifestations of horse sense in one way or another, and meeting will soon be called for permanent organization election of officers and such other busi, ness as may regularly come before it. In the meantime readers everywhere are invited to send in nominations for membership.
 The roll at present includes-in Canaan, Jay Underwood, George Fuller. George Roger, Harry Lyles, John Thurlough, Sam Camp, Dr. Ross, Horace Humphrey, Ed. Warner. H. R. Whitford, Joe Parsons, Clint Roraback, Ed. Norton, Lew. Rhoadss. O. E. Badgley, Al, Wiggles- worth, and whole lot of others, as will appear when the complete roster is printed later on. Falls Village-Iks Hornbeck, Dwight Dean. Pope Chap. man, Fred Egleston and others. East Canaan-George Cunning, Nat Stevens, George Goodwin and others.
 Practically every town in the county is represented and the revealation of the full membership will show that there's ! more horse sense in this corner of the , state than-than most people outside are , aware of