Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-29
TURN TO THE RIGHT.
IGrinnell Rexister.l

Turn to the right. Parties driving
on the left side of the street are liable
to fine of ten dollars A gentleman
speaking Of the crowded condition Of
the streets last Saturday said that the
confusion could be avoided If every
body were compelled to drive with
their right line next to the sidewalk.
He said that the sign, quoted above, is
posted on the streets of Marshalltown.
His thought was that it would relieve
the congested condition of the street
here if we had a similar ordinance in
Grinnell.
Turn to the airt. 1t is an excellent
suggestion and the funny part of it is
that when everybody turns to the right
there are no collisions. What a lot Of
trouble rigid observance Of this max
i'm would make.
There was the case of the two men
in the same business. There were the
many cases of irritation which comes
from sharp competition. They com
menced saying little spiteful things
about one another which did not
amount to much but left a sting behind
And whenever they met one another in
business there was always collision
And so. little by little, indifference stiff
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hatred. And this was the trouble that
these men got into because they did
not turn to the right
There were two women once who
lived across the alley from one another.
Monday forenoons, after the wash was
on the line. they used to lean against
the back fence for a few minutes to
catch their breath and talk about the
new family that had just moved in on
II. street and other topics of interest.
One day Mrs. Smith made a thought
less remark about Mrs. Jones and Mrs.
White told her of it in pretended
friendship. The devil gets whole lot
of his work done for nothing that way.
Mrs. Jones told Mrs. White q lot of
things that Mrs. Smith had told her
in confidence and oh. the trouble that
it all made 1t spoiled a friendship
which had lasted for years. II divided
the neighborhood into two factions. II
got into the ladies' aid society and from
there leaked into the church. 1t turned
the minister's hair gray and blasted the
usefulness of them ALL If they had only
turned to the right.
But there are still sadder things
when the circle is narrower. A father
and his son did not get along as we'll
as they might. OF course it was most
ly the boys fault. He was wild and
reckless, but the older man might have
been a little more considerable. The
very means which were taken to curb
the lads wild career seemed to spur
him on. They became estranged. they
even ceased to speak to one another.
And now the boy is working on rail-
road down in Texas. while the old man
sits-in his fine home and dreams away
his time in sorrow. And the pity Of it
is that it would have been all right if
they had only turned to the right.
Last it was a man and his wife who
had loved one another enough to for
sake all else and unite their interests.
1t started at the breakfast table. No
one can quite remember now whether
it was because the coffee was cold or
the steak burnt, but it resulted in the
assassination of home. "A careless
remark rasped on jaded nerves like
file and brought an angry retort. And
every day following had twenty-four
hours each containing sixty minutes in
any one of which it could have been
made right, but it never was. It made
just the difference between a paradise
and an inferno. 1t rent two people
apart and filled their lives with a bit
terness for which there was no remedy.
And there would not have been the
slightest clash if they had turned to the
right.
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