Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-04
WITH THE EDITORS

Florcsville must have n firsf-class
baseball team this summer We have
the material. one of the best parks in
this section of Texas and Il few loyal
fans. No greater cure has yer been
discovered for "spring fever which is
So prevalent during deg days. than the
great National game.-FIorcsville
Chroniclc-Journal
All the wars i'm American history
came in the beautiful springtimc. Even
the Indian wars came at the close of
the winter season. The French and
Indian troubles started in April. 1854.
although the clash at Great Meadows
did not come until the next month.
The battle Of Lexington. opening the
revolutionary war-if one ignores the
ITO claims Of the battle Of Alamance
ID that distinction-was fought on
ended. by the way. April IL. 1883. The
Black Hawk Indian war also was an
April proposition and il lasted eight
cen months. The second Creek Indian
war really began in April, although the
first blood was shed on May ). 1886.
March is not the month Of American.
war god. Tie overturned precedent
and dafied tradition when he selected
April as an auspicious month for the
beginning Of hostilitics the country
ovcr.1Clcburne Review.
The trouble with most Of the kids
nowadays is that they have ~ much
more liberty than their parents had
when they were growing up. Children
used "a imagine that they had 10 obey
their parents and do what they were
taught to do. but modern Americans 80
on the plan that children should be al
lowed 10 "dcyclop" naturally and no;
be hampcrcd with rules. The old idea
about natural sin has been overlook
ed 10 a certain extent and ii viii he
a better thing all around 10 90 back Nv
the old DAYS when misdcmcanorS were
met with q good old-fashioncd wallop-
inc out in The woodSL"d. Mighty few
children have Judgment enough 10
brine themselves mp right without any
interference from parents.-llarlingen
Star.
I'm the lIay American Magazine RAY
Stannard Baker writes a valuable and
highly entertaining article about Wood
row Wilson. in which he gives his cx-
planation of the Presidents success.
IL goes back and shows how Mr..
Roosevelt picked Taft because he
thought that Taft would give legal de-
iinition Ia the moral impulse which was
then sweeping the country. Mr.. Roose-
welt believed that Taft. because he had
been a great LAWYER. would b. a great
president. This. Mr.. Baker thinks. was
q grave mistake. What the country
needed was not n great lawyer but y
great thinker. Lawyers look backward
thinkers look forward. Mr.. Baker goes
on IN part as follows:
lin Mr.. Wilson the comtry has nj
last given birth 10 n thinker.
Most men are halt minded. most
congressman are half-minGcG: thcy he
llcve that a problem has crly one cn1.
But n thinker knows that a problem is
like a magnet. equally charged AT both
ends. Where there is u centrifugal
force M work he knows that there il Il
rcntripetal force equally nj work. lie
knows that new forms Of dcccntraliza.
tion in government must always he held
in cheek by new forms Of ccntraIiza-
ton. Only a democracy can be trusted
with an %autocrat.
Now. n thinker is So rare. either III
the White fIousc or outside If il. that
il is difficult to know Just how 10 take
him. Washington has not been 50 puz-
lied over anyone III years as il is over
Mr.. Wilson.
II CHANGED IA come across two. men
who had recently been IN IL the White
House t. call ON the president. The
first one told ne h. thought Wilson
extremely difficult of a~pproach-not So
much physically as intellcctually--that
he was distant. uncomnunicativc. ike
~ 10 parry inquiries with pleasing IRON
les. | should SAY that this was the
dominant view at Washington of those
who 60 rather frequently ,osee Mr..
Wilson. While he meets his visitors
with q smile he rarely volunteers any
thing. lie stands and waits patiently.
rs though reserylng both his physical
and mental strength. Some visitors.
remembering the vital impact of that
tremendous energizar of a Rooseve7.
ar the robust good humor Of Taft. come
away from the quiet thinker Of the