The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-10
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established. Many times l have not
agreed with it on public questions,
but always gave it credit for honesty
! of purpose, and it is prtty good news
paper Sometimes have thought that
it was not always fair to the fellow
who did not agree with it, but this is
not wnat l started out to say or to
write about 1t is only in the last
few weeks that have read rather reg
ularly the paragraphs under the head
of 'tThe States Survey" I want to
! tell you, that fellow who gets them up
is one of the best ever read after 1t
is nard matter to write column of
paragraphs every day, and say some
thing worth whole, or something that
would entertain for the moment even,
but that fellow, whoever he is, is on
the job every day, and sometimes he is
real good. 1 picked up a paper jus:
the other day which I especially en-
joyed. One of his first ones is:
There was never yet a paragrapher
who could endure the stomach-ache
patiently" Well, if that was a per-
sonal remark it had little to do with
the remainder of that paper, and tnen
he writes about things just like he was
married. Listen to these two:
There are 9,S76,543 games OF
chance in the world. And the biggest
of them all is marriage"
"a Cincinnati woman says that thou
sands nave died from kissing. O, death,
where is thy sting!'
And l agree most heartily in this
one:
eve can stand almost any kind of
man. But the follow who gives you
hand like limp fish to shake isn't
one of EN-"
Then here is another which is very
suggestive of the truth that there has
been lot of lying going on about
The number of people who have been
killed and wounded in the great war
across the ditch
"If the massacre figures are correct,
we Judge that at the beginning of the
war Armenia had a population OF
SOC, 1000 O0O."
According to the reports there have
been more people killed and wounded
in this war than there are people on
the entire face Of the known world.
Then l agree, to large extent, with
the one which follows this one little
further down the column:
"One of the greatest troubles VITA
this poor old world is the circumstances
the the Fool Killer appears to stay So
seldom on his job"
Then Mr.. Ford gets a little adver-
tisement in this same column:
"Mr. Ford says he will give up his
entire fortune if it will end the war.
That isn't all you'll give up, Henry,
if the water gets a little agitated.'
Taking about Mr. Ford and peace,
it is said, | have heard, that Mr.. Ford
paid $40 900 for the reservations on
his peace ship and Immediately sold
the right to some movie picture man
for $4,000 to be allowed to accompany
the ship and take pictures for the
movies. Now, if Mr.. Ford should give
I'D mis- estire fortune-which hear is
something like 51,000,000 in cash in
banks, not to speak Of his other hold
ings-I imagine he would sell out at
profit. He must be pretty good bust
ness man as we'll as good advertising
agent. There is one thing about this
trip of Mr.. Ford-while, so far as |
am concerned, think it is all wrong
and will not have the right tendency
SO far as loyalty to government is
concerned and all that-yet there is
'one thing about it and that is it vii!
cause more peace talk than We have
had in long time, and you may say
what you please, yeu can keep talking
thing and writing it and after a
while you will have the people behev-
ing it and ther doing it, because be-
fore you car get people to do yod
must make them believe. am old
time in my views Of life and Of govern
ment, and l don't know just how to
adjust myself to some of the new the
ories and practices, but just drift
along with the stream, l reckon, and
do the best l can The world is just