Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-01
QUIET TALK

"When fellow gets so he cant uls- cuss subject without getting mad" said Casey, the coal man, to his neigh bor, Weisenheimer, ''he ought to shut LID and not talk at all. When fellow begins to get mad it's a sure sign to me that he's run out of arguments"
 Certainly" said Weisenheimer. "We should be tolerant of one anoth- CTS opinions. If we didn't exchange opinions about things, we'd never learn anything, and the best sign of culture 4and good common sense, for that matter-to my mind is the consitlera- tion we give to other peoples ideas. When I was at Heidelberg"
 "That's what I say" interposed Casey, earnestly. q tell you it pays to listen to the other fellow. You'll get a different angle on the thing. After all, none of us are always right the other fellow is right sometimes and just because he happens to diff fer with you is no reason why you shouldn't listen to what he says-he may be right that particular time."
 Certainly. Besides, the ability to discuss matters with others from an absolutely unprejudiced standpoint, and from. an honest desire to improve our knowledge upon the subject dis cussed, is the highest test of intellect ual poise. Our old professor of meta physics used to say"
 "You're right, old man-that's the point" said Casey. "There's nothing makes me so sore as fellow that ab- solutely can't and won't see but one side to question. l see old Wilson has fired another shot at the kaiser"
 "Shot? What kind of shot this time, Brother Casey?" asked Weisen. heiiner, blandly.
 "Abovt those Yarrowdale prisoners that the kaiser is holding over there Wilson tells him, cold turkey, he's got to come across with them without any more parley-that last note was straight from the shoulder"
 "Yes-that's good. I hope they will be released. This unfortunate war;
 Unfortunate? It's a blamed. out rage that's what this war is, The idea of raising all that fuss about an Aus trian archduke, or whatever he Was--'
 "Oh, there's a good deal more to this war than that" little; affdfr,,ss1 MT Casey. That was mere incident. The underlying causes are deep and funda' mental. It is really a struggle between two antagonistic ideas of civilization and progress"
 'Oh, back up with that stuff, Weisey that makes me sick. There aint anything to this war but old Bill Ho. henzollern's ru]e-or-ruin policy. He's going to run things over there or bust 'em up. He is just big political boss with big army to back him up, that's all Bill is"
 "I beg pardon, MT. Casey, now, real ly, that don't sound good from a man of your intelligence. If you've read the White Book'-''
 "White fiddlesticks--1 hope you are not falling for that bunc?''
 Before would talk about this wal I would read the official documents, If were you--what's the use of talk. ing to fellow like you, that don't read anything"
 Don't read anything? Now, there you go, Weisey-why, don't do any. thing but read about the war. If there's anything about the war that l don't know, I'm darn sure you can't tell me. The trouble with you, Weisey, is you're prejudiced."
 "The trouble with you, Casey, is that you're bonehead-"
 "Bonehead? Bonehead? Say, Weisey, if I had a head as hard as yours, I'd soak it in something, like they do wood pulp, to soften it up, SC you can get an outside idea into it once in while. You think you know 1t all, and you don't know nothing"
 "Casey, there's two kinds of people won't argue with, idiots and chil. dren-and you're no child, I'll say that much for you-'
 Argue? Why, you can't argue. You wouldn't know fact if you saw 1t coming up the middle of the street, with an affidavit on each side of it. Argue? You just think you are say. ing something when you're just mak. ing funny sounds. If had head as thick as yours, Weisey-"
 LAW, you ought to be going to school instead of trying to sell shale for
 Say, you better go back to Heidel- berg"
 "You ignoramus."