Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15

y I said, Some things that are le-
gally right are morally rotten
; That's one of them"
Now listen! why call We me
Lord, Lord, and do not the things
say"
In the works of benevoIence:
How much do you give away?
don't want to do anything to de-
spise scientific charity, l don't care
to do anything of that sort, but
listen! That doesn't mean that II
a fellow meets you on the street
and asks you for your clothes that
you've got to yank them off and
give them to him and go home
clothed in sunshine.
That doesn't mean if some lazy
wop that never worked in his life
asks you to get out of your automo-
bile that you climb out and let him
get in and drive away and you hot
hoof it.
That doesn't mean if you work
and save your money and build
your home that you've got to move
and give it to somebOdy-no:
Listeni
Now l don't want to say anything
to despise scientific charity-it's
better than none-but what do you
do for a fellow when you take
down the color of his hair and of
his eyes and the number of his
teeth, and you give him the price
of sandwich and you keep the
breath of life in him but you don't
save him; you send him out to
shovel snow off your sidewalk
when you own a corner lot, and
you give him cup of coffee and a
sinker.
I'll tell you, you don't try TO
save him. Love will save him.
Love is the divine philosophy.
Some people are so darned stingy
that they never give away 10 cents
that they don't sing, God be with
you till We meet again
l have met people so contempt
IDLY stingy that they talked through
/ their nose to keep from wearing
their false teeth out. They'd steal
a fly from a blind spider
Last year we spent s1.200,000, 900
! for tobacco l am not a crank
about tobacco. A man said to me:
! bill. cant man be a Christian
and use tobacco?'
l said, Yes. but he'd be a good
deal better one if he didn't, l
| think. and you have more respect
| for man that doesn't"
! You have more respect for my
! preaching because you know l don't
than you ewould have if Id come
here with a briarwood, or come in,
my friends, with the northwest cot
ner 0 ia plug of Lorillard's Climax
! in my cheek and then spit it out and
take a drink of water. You'd say,
If the Holy Spirits got to roost
around in a man like that, l don't
care to hear him"
I'm not a crank about it-no. no!
But here. Cigarets that are
consumed in this country. if laid
end to end. they'd circle this globe
122 times around; they'd reach
3.060,410 miles; there are about
sixty billion consumed annually.
Thirty million men and boys smoke
Allowing it takes ten minutes to
consume a cigaret. it would take
an army of 2,600,0 900 men, smoking
ten hours a lay, to consume the an
l have heard keen, shrewd men
say that they would about as soon
their boy would drink as smoke
cigarets. Oh, if you keep on Smok-
ing cigarets the way you are doing
you'll wake up some morning when
your brain has run out on the pill
low.
It's almost certain to lead to
drink, they say 1t grinds a mans
will into powder, racks his nerves,
ruins his heart. deadens his sensi-
bilities. You see him going up the
street with a hacking cough. a pale
face. yellOw-fingered, anemic. It's
getting to be one of the greatest
obstacles and barriers to getting a
job nowadays Every young man
applying in the great institutions in
Chicago-M Marshall Fields, Cudahy. |
Swifts. Nelson and Morris, the In
ternational Harvester Co. and other /,
institutions-is asked three ques- |
tons:
Do you drink? Do you smoke
cigarets? Do you gamble?
Therefore, a fellows got to he |
passably decent to hold good job |
down. There was a time when the /
travelling man that could put away |
the most booze and had the biggest
stock of dirty, smutty stories could !
get the biggest orders. Today that /
fellow is wearing out shoe leather
looking for job. l haven't seen
a travelling man drunk in ten years.
Last year we spent $S00,000,O 200
for amusements. Well, we all en-
Joy a good laugh. You can't go
around with a gloomy face all the
time Il am just showing you the
wealth we've got, my friends).
Last year We spent 5000, 100000
for dogs Well, like a good dog
My favorite is an airedale. But |
don't like to see fool woman hug
ging and kissing a pug-nosed dog.
A woman must love something but
[ don't call a pug dog something.
Perhaps that's one reason why
your husband isn't more affection
ate. Any man with good rich, red
blood in his veins don't care to
play second fiddle to a bOw-legged |
bull dog. j
Last year we spent $500 100000
or jewelry. All right! l love 10 =
zee nice jewelry if you can afford {
t. l love to see it.
Last year we spent 5000 100000 {
or autos 1 wish everybody could /
Lfford an auto. l think it is one ,
# the grandest inventions for the
comfort, the happiness of the I
people. 1t makes man z
orget. He spins out into the coun- $