The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

the world what a big fool Scotch
man can be when a Scotchman is a
fool.
Says Blood win Tell.
King James ii, Scotch blood. stands
for persistency. bulldog tenacity
stick-to-it-iveness, never give up. fight
to the last ditch and them refuse to
acknowledge defeat know a good
deal about the Scotch. Mrs. Sunday
1t a full-blooded Scot.
And English blood stands for the
reverence Of the ancient as shown by
the fnct that England spent fifty mil
lion dollars to put a crown on George
block. Danish blood stands for love
of the sea- Welsh blood, religious fer
vor and seal for Jesus Christ. And
the Jew blood capacity to make mon
ey. from the days OF Abraham until
now.
According to our standard OF gold
| and silver, Abraham was worth
billion dollars. David was worth
three billion dollars. Solomon could
have hired John ID. Rockefeller for
chauffeur. Solomon could have hired
Andrew Carnegie for butler. He
could have hired j.. Pierpont Morgan
to cut his lawn. According to the
wealth, YOU think we have got money
nowadays. Think of what they had
according to our standard Of gold and
silver.
Nero's mother was a murderess,
that is why that old libertine took
stakes, fastened them into the ground
and then took men and women who
| believed in Jesus Christ and covered
I their bodies with rosin and tar and
strapping them to posts, set fire to
them; and then he drove his chariots
a., in his drunken revelry. while they
were incinerated to ashes, because
they would not deny faith in Jesus
Christ. In this war. why, the Turks
lined the Armenians up by the tens Of
thousands and said, '1f you will
acknowledge Allah as God and Mo-
hammed as the prophet We will let
you CO." and rather than dip their
colors to old Mohammed they died by
the tens of thousands with the name
of Jesus Christ on their lips.
Patrick Henry's mother was elo-
quent, that is the reason that every
school boy from New York to San
Francisco knows, ''Give me liberty
or give me DEATH" Philip Godrich's q
mother taught him Biblical history in
the old Dutch fireplace and the pic
! lures in front of 1t. Home authority
and home examples are needed
Home Example Needed.
I have Travelled up and down this
land and have met every beast upon
the arena and I am convinced now
that neither law nor gospel can make
a nation great without home author
ity and home example. Parental neg
lect is one of the principal causes for
the failure of boys. Judicious control
and moral training are absolutely in
dispensable; neglect is not less fatal.
That fool-doting parent who cannot
bear to correct that boy, may be COM
| PEELED to see him corrected in the re-
formatory and by the sovereignty OF
the power of the state. know a good
| many people go around and sneer at
the boy and say, 20, he is tied to his
mothers apron strings" But that is
| an ancient term OF reproach and II is
| designed to separate youths with pink
| hair from the last vestige of self-re-
1 straint and from self respect, and that
sneering use of that phrase will con-
vert a fairly decent boy into a loud
mouthed, staggering tough with the
vocabulary of Bowery bum and all
the refined tastes of a wharf rat and
| the symptoms are:
Ability to absorb more fne-cut than
a two-story cuspidor can hold: lie
on his tongue that would make old
Ananias look like chrome of truth
crushed to earth. and when a boy be-
gins to hang his hat over one ear
and hit the cigarettes, and the booze.
and calls his father. "the old man"
and puts in good share of the night
chasing with some chicken down the
White Way. and trying TO win jack
pot on two fours. and lays up against
quart Of Res Eye in some suds par
| lor. and crawls into the hay from the
last dance with "a three-step head
ache. it's dollars to doushnuts that
some cheap skate of a sport has called
upon him to assert his independence
| Of that string dangling from his moth
/ er's waist line known as her apron
string.
/ But, say. the young fellow who al
lows himself to be laughed into a