The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-10-28
Underwood Bouquets and BrickbatS

The report of the road meeting held
at the packing house of A. J. Haynes
should have read Dist. 9 instead Of 80.
/. X. Ziegler is the efficient road boss
in district 81. Also the amount of the
bond issue money set aside for the sec
tiOn from Cooks to Underwood is $685.
600 and not $40, The engineers
have been buswthe past weeks of fine
weather and they will soon have the
final survey and location of the road
completed.
Hadden Manners and Geo. Tryell
have been busy of late in rebuilding
large cistern on the DR.. Manners place,
to be ready for the big fall rains which
we hope will soon show up.
Slurs and discourtesies react and
smIte their authors more severely than
their intended victims. This is the
moral rebound of life ard there is no
more certain and terrible law.
There is So much that is bad in the best
of US,
And so much that is good in the worst
of US,
That it doesn't behove any of US
TO talk about the rest of US.
If some one says you're not any good,
Or some such pleasant thing or other.
Just smile as if you hadn't understood,
And call him Brother !"
That's the same as calling him "an-
other"
And saves row.
And what's the use of rowing anyhow?
Joseph Parker said, "The devil is
gone, hell issgone and God is going"
Billy Sunday, however, thinks if there
is no hell Carnegie or some philan-
thropist ought to build one. Some of
the things men used to fear they no
longer dread and regard as sort of
jokes. Their greatest fear is of each
other. Man has little to fear from the
sources of nature. With these he has
made peace and they have become his
servants. The evil spirits of the air
and the ghosts and witches of the dark
ages have been resolved into their true
elements by the alchemy of science and
the touchstone of reason. The only
enemies of man that are left are his
fellow men, especially if they be "civil-
lied" and "Christianized" men. The
heather and savages have no terrors
for US. We do not fear that they will
oVerrun our fair land and take our
heritage from US. Against them we
do not need to arm ourselves. But our
Christian neighbors appear to be
our dreaded enemies. Against these
we must build fortresses and huge en-
gines of war ;,because of these we must
stagger under the burdens of huge
standing armies and enormous naves.
Because of this fear, hate, envy or
whatnot, of each other. the Christian"
nations of Europe are now butchering
each other in slaughter the like of
which has never before been on the
face of the earth. The unspeakable
Turk with the apparent approval of his
Christian" allies has been killing the
poor Armenian Christians by the hun
dreds of thousands. The cruelest thing
on this earth is man TO man.
AS soon as our congress meets it will
be asked to vote vast sums OF money,
not for national improvement, but for
national defense. But who are our en-
emies? Canada would be our nearest
enemy" but we'have lived for a hun
dred years in peace with her without
huge fortesses on her border or great
.navies of warships belching smoke on
the big lakes, and not even Roosevelt,
the panopled apostle of militant peace,
waving the bloody torch and swinging
the red thunderbolts of battle, strident-
ly crying: War! War! and more
battleships not even Roosevelt would
say we need preparation against war
with Canada. But if not preparation
against war with Canada, then with
whom? 1t looks as if the Christian"
nations of Europe, if they wanted to
fight US, would not have much fight left
in them for the next so years or more.
Whatsfools we often be and what follies
We pursue, ThiStedown.