The Washington herald., 1918-01-13

not to criticize. No sooner did the
work begin than opposition arose.
Sure! But emergencies not only make
men but they make expediency as
well. The war didn't make Grant,
who sleeps on Riverside Drive in New
York, and over his door the words,
Let us have peace" The war didn't
make Gen. Sherman. who mounts his
horse at the entrance to Central
Park; the war didn't make brilliant
Hancock; the war didn't make Rob-
ert Z. Lee or Stonewan Jackson; the
war didn't make Dewey, nor Schley.
nor Sampson, nor Roosevelt, nor Hob
son: the war simply gave them a
chance to unveil themselves, and
they showed to the world they were
not made out of stun which turns to
water when they face danger.
The opposition defeats itself by
arousing watchfulness on the part Of
the people and determination on the
part of the people that are opposed.
A mans criticism is the revelation of
his own character and not the meas
ure of the degradation of the one
that he criticises. Criticism is the
public revelation OF the character Of
the critic. Criticism gives the public
the latitude and the longitude. moral
ly, OF the one who criticises.
A fellow one time didn't believe in
revivals. He didn't want them to
track dirt into the church; he didn't
want them to scratch the varnish, and
they never tried anything that he
didn't oppose. Finally some OF the
fellows got together and said: what
are We going to do with him7"
Finally they said: well, we haven't
prayed for him yet" They said:
Brother. will you pray for him?"
mo. sir. I haven't grace. 1 will
boot him IL you want me to-"
Finally they found one good old
fellow that thought he would try, and
he and they agreed to try prayer
meeting night. So tho brother got up
and said: Lord. you know what a
hard time we are having. There is
Brother Brownie opposes every
thing We undertake to do: he never
does anything and we have come to
the conclusion the best thing you can
do is to take him to heaven" The
fellow jumped up and said: II won't
go. won't go! won't go!"
Another fellow got up and prayed
anu HO ediu, l<Oiup we HdNo COME 10
the conclusion that you had better
take him to hell" They were aston
ished and they asked him afterwards,
What did you do that for?" He
said, "If We can only get him in hell
he'll either run 1t or break it up, one
of the two"
People are here to work, not to
knock. Somebody said, After God
made the rattlesnake and the vampire
and the pole cat. he had some awful
substance left that he didn't know
what to with, so he made a knocker
out of it."
A knocker is a two-legged animal
with a cork-screw soul and a sewer
soaked heart, He's got a backbone
made out of jelly and glue, and where
others have a heart he has a tumor
Of rotten principles. People ought to
have mind to work and not to knock
and, whenever knocker comes down
the street, honest men-turn their
back; the angels take refuge behind
their golden harps. They don't want
to look-people who have a mind to
work. And the devil double locks his
gate for fear he will get in there.
Don't you know there are lots of peo-
pie sitting around in every town,
growing like a broody chicken, knock
ing every good thing down! Don't YOU
be that kind of cattle. for they amt
no use on earth!
BE a Booster.
BE a booster rooster; crow and boost
for all you're worth,
If things just don't seem to suit you,
and the world is kinda wrong,
What's the. matter with a boostin' tust
to help the thing along?
Because. If things should stop agoin',
we'd be in a sorry plight.
You just keep your horn a blowin'
crow and boost with all your might.
If you know some feller's failin's, Just
ferget 'erh, for you know
That same feller has some good points
-them's the ones you want to
show.
Cast your bread upon the waters,
they'll come back-a saying true.
Maybe they'll come back all buttered
by the feller who'll boost for you.''
They say that one time Angelo went
into room upon the walls of which
Raphael had placed cartoons. Angelo,
practiced and experienced. told him
that the cartoons were too large pro-
portionately. for the size of the room.
Without offering a word of criticism
he dipped a brush in the paint and
he reproduced on the wall a cartoon,
the size which. in his judgment. the
others should have been.
Somebody said to Angelo, "why
aidn't yau call attention to the d.