University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-07

lily ID prosperous, happy anu cOu-
tented. Where is the man who is so
weak minded as to want TO return to
the conditions of sixteen years ago.
Let the demagogues, the blatherskites,
the lickspittles, the mollycoddles, the
tub thumpers and the barn stormers
take notice, the notice is this: Ii
you do not like this country, bundle
up your rags and get out of it.-Re-
publican Sentinel.
Good manners on street cars and
elevators, or trans and lifts, as they
are called abroad, are at present COM
ing in for measure of discussion,
and it is observable, as usual, that the
element of kindness-just plain. ordi-
nary, everyday kindness-is overlook
ed that less important considerations
may be given attention. What is
known as social etiquette. with its
numerous and somewhat intricate re-
quirements, may as we'll be put en-
tirely aside when the subject OF pub
lie politeness is demanding a hearing.
In this busy world, where men and
women, especially in large cities, are
jumbled together, it is not the shadow
but the substance of good manners
that counts. A man may be very care
full to remove his hat in an elevator
containing women, and yet he may
have showed and POSTED some Of
them roughly on entering it. So, also.
a man may be most respectful in his
general attitude toward women in a
street car, and yet fail to offer his
seat to a woman who finds no other.
1t is not necessary here to allude
to the shortcomings OF women in their
treatment of men who are considerable.
or in their treatment of each other, at
times when selfforgetfulness and re-
gard for the feelings OF those VITA
| whom they come in contact would
greatly relieve the situation and make
everybody feel better Let it suffice
that what is commonly called polite
ness may too often be entirely on the
surface. 1t is kindness that really
counts. Kindness is one of the most
beautiful of all the virtues and the
basis of genuine good Manners
Christian Science Monitor.
| The cost of the attempted conquest
of the air, both in lives and treasure,
has already been great. and is to grow
still greater. The question is gen.
orally being raised, Is the game worth
the candle?
Many records have been broken, but
| so have the bones of many aviators.
Within recent years nearly two-score
! lives have been the toll of this new
sport. adventure. or science, which
ever it may be. Thousands upon thou
sands of dollars have been sacrificed
to it. In Wellman's exploits alone an
enormous sum fioated away to abso-
| lutte waste. Lives are imperiled at
every ascent. And recently it was
| the only by imperpitious whim of
fate that the aviators Hawley and
Post were allowed to escape miser-
able death in the Canadian wilds.
A common view of aviation is that
expressed by Uncle Walt, the poet
philosopher, when he says:
ITO tell the truth. the air mans
deed does not enthuse me worth a
darn; I'd rather write humble scread
about the man who paints a barn.
Some aviator risks his neck defying
gravitation's rules; but let me praise
the human wreck who bitches up a
span of mules. For gaudy men and
gaudy deeds the bards will always
twang their Tyres, but who'll supply
the soulful needs of those who light
the kitchen fires?"
Nevertheless kitchen fires are now
easily supplied with the 1uel Whlcn
they consume and the food which they
cook because of the daring and the
risk of life and fortune incident to
the building of some railroad or canal,
or some great bridge or the opening of
|some mine. Men have always had to
dare and die that their successors
might enjoy liberties and comforts
and happiness which they did not.
Who has foreknowledge enough to
say that the conquest of the air may
mot serve humanity's good in some
such way? Who can say that avia-
tors deeds may not at some future
date be the means of making human
ity's kitchen fires burn brighter At
lanta Constitution