Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-08-06

the effect that some obscure person
of some place was shot during a quar-
rel over the issues of the campaign
The candidates long since ceased tc
settle the difficulty in this manner
although they once did so with
such startling regularity that politics
as field of endeavor was about as
conducive to longevity as aviation
now seems to be. Along with the new
viewpoint, which resulted in cur
tailment of the consumption of ammu,
milton by the candidates, there came
greater tendency on the part of the
mass of the people to regard the other
fellow charitably.
But even now the charity seems
not to drop like the gentle rain from
heaven. Its quality seems still to be
strained, and sometimes the strain be-
fcomes too severe. Complete and
cheerful tolerance will come only
| with a sense of humor
1t is quite evident that a man can
walk along sidewalk faster than he
can crawl. Therefore, if some one
were to explain that he was quite
sure the better way is to crawl, and
were to proceed to crawl with result
ing damage to trousers, cuffs and dig
nifty it would be rather amusing. 1t
could not be otherwise. Imagine, if
you can, man crawling along Hous-
ton street in evening clothes and Sc
riously explaining to his friends that
he was quite sure he had the better
way. Why not apply the same princi-
pies to politics? The incongruities of
its mistaken theories, the palpable ap-
peals to narrow prejudices, the intro
duction of impossible and irrevelant
ideas are in the last analysis very
funny. And when the people take
them up. seriously in an attempt to
solve the various and serious national
issues they are in very much the po-
sition of the man whose trousers, cuffs
and dignity are suffering. -
After all, the world is growing bet
ter. The only remarkable thing is
that the man who crawls insists upon
crawling ten or twelve blocks when
It ought to be evident to him after
the first block that he isn't making
much progress. Men who crawl,
however, have an unenlightening way
of looking down and don't readily no.
tice that those who are walking get |
along faster. That is why they think |
the fellow who walked cheated when |
they find him at the end of the
course
The saving sense of humor seems
to save very few However, humor
is no easy thing to acquire. 1t is the
sum and substance of all knowledge
and all philosophy. 1t is chiefly a
sense of proportion. If one hasn't
a good sense of proportion he would
be likely to mistake cartoon for
Second-rate art work For centuries
the world has been striving toward
a sense of humor 1t is today drag
5ing along prejudices, jealousies, pet
~ prides and half dozen other
shackles which will drop when
sense of humor is acquired and it be-
comes clear to men that if they but
owe their neighbors as themselves
hat about solves the question, and
some fifty thousand or more other
avs can be relegated to limbo.
Now isn't it really funny to think
hat the world is fairly burdened
Town with laws when nearly everyl
me has had it clearly explained just
Why one law will do and really ad-
nits it to himself? OF course, it is.
80 is everything else that is out of
And so many things are
'ut Of proportion that life is just
lied with material for good, kindly
Antonio Express.