South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-15
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THE MAN WITH A GOLF STICK AND THE
GENTLEMAN WITH A HOE
JOHN HENRY ZUVER, Editor

We like the way those talked at that Friday din
ner-the "well-to-do" and the rich promising join
fortunes with the financially mediocre and the poor,
with respect 20 the dedication o their per
scna1 energies the development OF natural
sources idea Transforming big portions
Of the Country club into potato patch likewise
courts gron-ups, different parts OF the city 1t
than the proposal even. pillow up
sudebaker park and especially unless they proceed
crop the portion planned should be
converted into a golf Inks-and crop this latter first
There ought TO be little use golf sticks this
season long the lasts that is if there is
be the demand anticipated for workmen the farms
in the workshops at planting cultivating
ing i'm order that produce those
necessities life that keep civilians soldiers and
men alike from starving. II is enough. pa
trlotc workngmen alone should supplement their
daily grind some hours service soldier OF
agriculture We commend TO the with a golf
stick take his exercise with hoe Instead Of
speeding out TO Country this while
away driving golf ball. let him cultivate his
back yard or a vacant lot somewhere. it might be-
arrange with farmer sell him hour two
OF service each or every other afternoon, thus
while helping best also nature help
help himself
We realize Of course that the sun shines much hotter
over a bayfield, it a baseball park. Most
any youngster will in that statement Most
grown-ups. wEO have not become fossilized
q have lost memories will need confederation
we presume the with respect the golf
the oldest big boys
with other pranks TO execute had back the
days when W .-sre Ilttle" Frora a thirds
Of our seriousness and pretensiousness of ex-youth
doclity is counterfeit Some OF us put prove
superiority to wives keeping up the old
blum that pulled her before married
others of us pull off wife disciplined
theory that excessive dignity is a good
ample for the children.
And so well then let's play war. We can't be sol
the field, of us but be soldiers Of
the truck-patch- If Uncle sam won't let fire
let's get 10y swinging a hoe. a few us who
there before might in season.
that treacherous but quite useful weapon. the
pitchforz. grinds heavily; if
manual labor appears to us too coarse" there is still
an alternative. We might permit ourselves
rallied by the municipal recreation committee led
forth m disguise organized play which at
rock bottom little else than doing
fuI things without knowing it, thus imagining it
is fun.
OF course. joke. The necessity that
of possible upon
natural in the production of etc.
Joke. Without the production likely realize
before another springme that it joke yet
If the soldiers in the trenches smile, laugh, tell
stories and have games mind diversions surely it
isn't for in the role of home
have dyspepsia. wildly to backache. We
can just well this thins- a duty indeed
a ciccumstanally forced pleasure,-as go about
a drudge. 1t might
The main difference between golf stick a
difference which they put; this, plus
productiveness of which they are capable 1t is in
reality. mainly a PSYCHOLOGICAL difference condition
Of the mind. supernduced a degree perhaps by the
condition purse. This latter ought make no
difference in times like these. when the issue is a
common country" How sacrifice. perhaps is a
lesson that need to be taught and who knows but
book fate" somewhere. written
answer. among the things that it all about.
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