Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-08-07

There may be something easier to do
than critieise but right off hand,
wouldn't know what 1t was 1t takes
a little grey matter to ride mule, or
harness a goat, it also requires some
little brain action to run fliyver,
but to criticize requires nothing but
an extended length OF tongue, small
audience and great deal Of staying
power.
Ever since Eve developed a taste for
apples and lost out in the Garden Of
Eden, the critic has been present
Whether OF not women are the worst
critics or not enters not into this ex
position, but the fact Of the matter is
that the day Eve took chuns oUt
Of tat pippin ifarhs d-.y of the first
critic, for Adam took exception to her
act and right there Is where 1t started
Most Of these old boys that did some
thing real had a bunch Of harpies
hanging around that took the joy out
Of life for them and threw d wet blan-
ket on their plans. Look at Chris Co.
lumbus.
When Chris was kid he had the
idea that some Of these old fogies who
had spinach on their chin and cobwebs
in their head, were ell wrong in their
According to their dope the world was
flat, and If you took your wife out for
ride some Sunday afternoon. on the
briny you had to watch your step be-
cause If you went too far. you had a
good chance to reach the jumping off
place and then II was curtains for you.
This didn't listen suite 100 per cent
TO Chris and instead Of staying out on
the square until the mikman showed
up he stayed home and did a little fig
uring on his own hook and after burn
ing the midnight oil for a few moons
he finally came to the conclusion that
If the world was flat. there was a din
ger Of dam some place holding all
that waer in, and he decided that he
was elected to find the dam.
II you have ever read history or was
exposed to It In your scnoel days you
probably recall how the scientists help
ed him out. The only helping out they
did was to help him out Of the country
and Chris ambled over into Spain
c. G. must have stood ace high as
mafador for he kidded Queen Isabella
into hooking her engagement ring for
enough kale 70 stake him to a boquet
Of small boats and after rounding up
crew he called for full steam ahead
After sailing quite spell he blew into
New York Harbor one Afternoon in
time to get supper at Shanleys and
became a charter member Of the I Told
You So Club Maybe it wasn't New
York Harber he got into but it serves
the purpose to show you that he had
the heavy bunch about the shape Of
the world.
You remember how ne sailed back TO
Spain and showed the Wise II Helm
ers Just how sour they were and for
short period ChFissy was ace high with
the danes, Then the knockers got
their hammers out and 1t wasn't long
until Columbus had a steady boarding
house in the county hoose gov and to
insure his staying they gave him a
couple Of bracelets OF Bessemsr's best.
The knockers didn't know anything
about the new world that had been
discovered and they started critcizing
ire account OF 1t, ending up their criti-
clsnl by suggesting that Chris change
ms brand o. sehrapps as he had prob
ably dreamed all that bunk.
It's long way frem discovering a
world 10 running a newspaper, and
there isn't much connection to the two
except for Vie fact that 1t shows that
the critic tribe sill has Its members
on the Job. The remendy for the ola
spanish scientists would have been
TO have given hem q ride over to the
new land aad showed them the goods
Just Ike Dennis X. Nude was shown
now o newspaper is gotten. together
ana got cured OF criticizing.
Dennis was one Of these worthy cit
izehs Of which every town has a goodly