The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1919-11-14

Th, need CT the country Is not
more ;dealism, but more pragilla.
;sm ct conlnu..ism. but common
aense Radical iaealism IS arrays
,,ro4 irc more tl.2n can pay an
tLe, iefaulting II is always 90
mo 70 make good sixty days a11s-
date md then stepping out from
RasicaHsm at its best usually
mean well and generally does
harm: but just now it Is not at ~
hest nor even at its second pest
Il 4 at its get-rich-quiek worst
y & one -ating with plausible hteE-
ature and an army OF siiIoo o,,,
spoken agents, selling pretty prom
ises. But its mines viii pinch ou.,
It's oil wells prove busters ana lI
not If gold shift to the 1907 y
some new rainbow.
In the end, common sense always
has TO straighten out the messg ,
and. nav the notes of radical ldeal-
;sts. "a fe edthe starving and oufy
tbe dead of the reds. Common
sense MOI only means well, but does
wall Though its best IS not per
lection, it is pretty good ana ee'-
ting better. la,
Thoye is more common sense lett
!, the country than one would sus-
meet from reading the papers, ior
potbirg becomes news until u pc
aor,as the exception. But II the
red program continues 10 mar
progress we shall see the man Why
does an honest days work piaSeu
nm on the first page under the olg
TYNE now sacred to sabotage am
direct action. These viii De sueh
,.ommonulaces of daily hfe that :
i;ne or two on an inside page VIII
axrbanSt their news possiolhties.
uonestv thrift and morality VIII
fhen be the abnormal and hte scan
5alo,e The most sensational sto-
RES of the yellow press VIII De con,
carnea with them. Free love VIII
rass unnoticed. while an old-fash-
,ored wedding will be good for
naoe story and an editorial reprov-
20 tha bride for her defiance Of the
conventions
The world has been feeding on I,
soft sweet slush of ideallsm uhti,
;ts stomach has been turned anu
n has been drinking the syn,netlc
redye of the radicals until nan
of il is having del'rium tremens'
Now II Is a case of plain fare-or
The stomach pump; of cutting ous
The redeye-or the padded cell.
History will see our present state
of mind as one with that preceding
fbe burning of witches. the child
ren,s cru sade, the great tulip craze
and other examples of softening OF
fbe world brain. Heretofore we
Lant fairly sane through ep'demcs
of madness. When anyone eX,
plained just how the would eoulu
null itself up by its bootstraps. we
have been disposed TO remember
few well-known fact sabout strains
and the law of gravitation. Wnefe
Aiax defied the lightning. old ben
franklin went after it with a KITE
and a key. That would seem to De
tbe better and the common-sense
American way
The Russo German movement that
as now trying TO dominate America
IS at once so bogus and so SINISTER
that it is hard to see how so many
people can be deceived as to its
meaning and intention. blinded
though they may be by nearsighted
self-interest. To those who have
tsseir wits about them, whose self
interest 81 farsighted, the trail OF
the red leaders is as plain as that
of the mole. Like him they work
underground, but their direction and
detectives are perfectly apparent.
Their tracks lead back to Russia
and finally to Germany.
In America, where a peaceful law
ful remedy for any condition that
a majority does not favor lies ready