Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-08-09

Sorry, vurr sorry, but distance
and other affairs prevented the
Herald mans attendance at the
notification of Mr.. Hughes, al
though we received a real sure
enough invitation. Some other
time we hope-perhaps, the in
augural-eh?
To the constitutionally lazy
man the energy of the hustler
is a standing offense and an in
suit. The loafer regards the
worker as a menace to his right
of having a soft snap and hates
him accordingly. The lazy cuss
gets on the nerves of the fiend
for toll in the same manner and
he feels like applying the toe of
his shoe to a selected spot on the
loafer's anatomy every time he
passes him. Men divide more on
this than they do on politics or
religion.
Of course the investigation of
the Black Tom island explosion
will fizzle out just as all such in
vestigations gradually subside
into bromides and nothingness.
The Iroquois and Eastland hor-
ror Investigations began with
laundering promises only to lat
er dry up and disappear. No one
is held responsible for these
things. No one person or group
is really responsible but our
great national habit of careless
ness, and weeping crocodile
tears after the damage is done.
900
Woman suffrage advocates
who expect momentous changes
with the coming of ''votes for
women" may be keenly disap-
pointed. AS a matter of fact
will universal suffrage make or
create any immediate changes !?
The matter at issue lies not so
much in what women can or will
do with their freedom, as in
their right to have it. We must
not expect a class having privl-
leges suddenly thrust upon them
to take any sudden interest in
or have any vast knowledge of
political questions. On the 9TH
er hand, they will learn pretty
fast.
900
This is a boost. Lancaster's
paving seems to be in first class
condition considering it's ele-
ments and could easily fool a
stranger into believing that we
had asphaltum adj lib. A few
more applications of liquid as
phalt on the macadam will give
us, we hope, what is really as
phalt pavement and at a moder-
ate cost. Mayor Bailie wants to
apply another coat before the
season is over and possibly fol-
low up with one more next year.
The figures will be available
soon and we can see how much
the paving improvement is cost
ing us and later on how good 1T
is. In the meantime we have a
mayor and a street supervls-
or who are distinctly on the JOB.
900
Plays like Damaged Goods"
are not pleasing and do not
leave a pleasant after taste with
the person witnessing them. On
the other hand, Damaged Goods
displays the unpleasant, ugly
side of vice in light that can
not help but rob it of some OF
its attractions. Sowing wild
oats" young men have red
blood" youth will be served, !"
and all such things are said to
palliate transgressions, but it IS
well that people violate rules
with their eyes opened to the
consequences. 1t little pays a
man to have fling of the few
wears between adolescence and
marriage and later regret them
| to the point of bitter death. A
man looking at the child OF his
own flesh and blood and realizing
that it's incapacity and feeble,
diseased body are due to his
own loose living, is likely to
curse the false philosophy which
guilds vice with a pleasant mlen
and leads young men on to the
sorrow which has no crown.