New Britain herald., 1915-10-26
rELEPHoNn cALr.s,
THE PATIENCE OF JOB.

THE PATIENCE OF JOB.
 here was once an old gentleman
 wn as Job. He was the exempli.
 ton of patience. No matter wha, f did to Job, and, from all accounts y handled him not with kid gloves
 did not complain. Patiently ano ntly he bore the wounds others
 jected him to, and went his way
 ling. We have with us today an
 Ter old gentleman who is fashioned ch after Job. This old mans name
 Uncle Sam, and for patience and
 bearance he stands in a class by hself. head and shoulders over all
 world the most easy going, kind
 long suffering person in present.
 history. He has been slapped in
 face, buffeted around like
 hip in storm, kicked in the ear,
 lched in the eye, picked in the
 ket. spat at, and yet he has not
 his temper for a moment. has not
 nplained. Further, he has suffered { these outrages not from an angry
 10, but from a! source which some
 es parades under highly pol- ! ed name beginning with a K. And
 latest outrage perpetrated by this
 nderful array of talent is in keep.
 with all the others, with the great
 ing of abuses hung up since the be-
 ming of the war abroad. It is znetimes wonderful that the pa-
 nce of Uncle Sam holds out Some
 les it is surprising he does not rise
 in his might and administers se..
 e drubbing to his tormentors.
 lieutenant Fay and his three ac- #npIices under arrest in the con- racy to blow up war intuition ships ling from American ports have
 ced themselves irs the same class
 h the criminal who attempted to W up the Capitol at Washington d take the life of J. Pier Hint Morgan, with the men who hced bombs on outgoing vessels E3und for European ports, with the rupters who endeavored to wreck e industrial life of this nation, and Nth the host of other criminals who I've heaped their malicious indigni. $s on this country. And after all is there are people who say the hited States is unneutral, that it vors one side more than the other the present war. Well, what if it S les !? Can any sane person be blamed F getting peeved at a nation which flows it's subjects to come to SUD- &sedly neutral and friendly country pd commit so many blunders, get &ught in so many acts of violence, lead on So many toes, and abuse SC uch hospitality? If Uncle Sam Here to lose his great patience wht Till blame him? And yet withal he as been just as patient as Job o1 *d. His people have plodded along ay after day, and have made an at. bmpt to hew to the line marked ou *y President Wilson, to be neutral il Eie face of it all But there are som, #ho will not let them be neutral. | man slaps you In the face, unless h, Enakes profuse apology, you are al host certain to get mad. If he knock if your hat, you are liable to do hin hjury; if he picks your pocket an lou catch him at it. you are not to b blamed if you smash him in the jav But, after all these things, if you for live him and shortly after you hay Eorgiven him you find his right han tnder your vest trying to pluck ou kour heart, if you are any kind of han, and not coward, you are yer likely to count that as the last straw And that is what all these things ar amounting to, the disappearance ( the patience of Job. And when tE1s happens, watch out.
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