Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-21
One generation passeth
away and another generation
cometh, but the earth abideth
-Ecclesia sticus.
The Mote in Yellow journal Eye.

The Mote in a Yellow journal Eye.
An endless chain of idiocy is pre-
served and heightened by the sophis-
try of such argument as an Auburn
lady of marked ability and character,
quotes from a yellow journal Here
are specimens:
To give to the Red Cross working for
the wounded in Europe is pleasing, SEN
timental and spectacular.
What the Red Cross will do In this
war is about as much as a mosquito
could do in a great battle.
To send toys to the children IN Europe
children whose fathers have been
killed. and who face starvation-is senti-
mental-and silly.
The European nations are burning up
wealth at the rate of 600 day
What can American charity do in the
face ef such brutal waste?
The European nations are killing lien
and making orphans by the thousands
and tens of thousands in single day
Their tens of thousands of doctors ana
surgeons are at work upon the wounded.
Their hospitals are erammed- What can
american sympathy and sentimentality
do in such a flood of horror and mlsfor-
tune?
For us to intervene. with however
good intentions, in Europe would be ike
first off the Ark, when the Fiooo was at
it's height
The widow should not have given
her mite-it was spectacular"
Imagine a Hearst product using the
word spectacular Again the Bris-
bane flood gates of words were opened:
If YOU know of no hungry mother,
abandoned by her husband, or suffering
at home while her husband looks Tor
work by all means send your money ana
YOUR sympathy to some poor woman OF
man in Europe.
But remember this, so long as YOU
neglect the poor man. the poor ehlld, the
unemployed the anxious at home, ana
parade your charity for those abroad,
you are entitled to the first place in the
ranks of the hypocrites, or to seat IN.
the hall of the unlntelllgent.
What a joke it is to send toys 10 the
countries where murder is organized on
e wholesale basis, where the dead podies
are not buried, where thousands OF cnll-
dren wake up each morning TO learn that
their fathers are dead. where the extent
and horror of the calamity made ind1Vld-
ual effort pitiful farce.
Today the government-sh
Hearst-newspaper promoted liquor
Industry" is turning out abandoned
families, unemployed fathers, starving
children, heart-broken mothers,
pinched and perverted youth, hays,
thugs, honicides, suicides, and every
degree Of crime and corruption. at an
annual outlay of $4,000, 100000 year.
To attempt to succor any of these VIC
tins of human perfidy and their own
inherent ignorance would he like
sending one single life saver diving
head first off the ark, when the flood
was at it's height
Thank God. The Height of the
booze flood has passed, if the traffic It
self can be believed. But the spec
would first rescue every last victim
of the wholesale murder traffic which
it daily advertises. before sending
single doll to the child of victim OF
another form of commercialism be-
yond the sea.
1t is the same generations old claim,
that it is necessary to buy $500 worth
of misery and cussedness to obtain
50 cents in revenue for the govern
ment out Of the FOOLS corporation
conducted personal liberty"
Europe goes on making corpses and
orphans direct. with its trenches, big
guns and militarism, while America
turns EN- out by a slower but just as
sure process that enriches the COM
mercial oligarchy. 1t is Old Spit
Hoofs way of always curing While
carefully prohibiting prevention.
Charity SHOULD begin at home
and be continued at home, but it
should be extended to the daily broad
ening hell across the Atlantic. And
II is NOT silly to send any sort of
reminder Of American sympathy and
love to suffering humanity in any
part of the world.
The pair of n1ittens, knitted by
woman of heart and soul and brain,
in the town of Greene. and sent ITO
Belgium through the Kenebec Journal,
may have given more than all the
Hearst millions--"more than they ALL
Bigots clothe their selfish ideas in
fine raiment and many mistake them
for truth. Because we are not infinite
they pretend we are impotent.