The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-08-30
OLD-FASHIONED SPANKING
WOULD DO THE WORLD GOOD
Edna Cain Daniel in Quitman (Ga.)

been one of these patriots who be-
ilieved in a government of the people,
for the people, by the people, but
when he saw the practical workings
of this grand and lofty plan it made
him sick.
1t seems to me lately that every
body has been in sort of stew OF
discomfort and it is bad medicine. An
other man came in and told me lot
about the heel of capital being on the
neck of labor and l got very much
stirred up about that. 1t is an awful
thing to think of.
Then man came along and told
me that he didn't know what things
were coming to. He tried to employ
laborers and they wanted full pay for
! half time service.
A merchant told me that a pretty
) and pious young lady who taught
school in an adjoining county had
made a bill at his store last spring
and promised that she would pay him
in monthly installments. From that
dy forward he never heard from her.
He wrote polite letters saying: "We
are surprised not to have heard from
you in response to our last letter.
We are absolutely obliged to collect
our own accounts in order to pay
what we owe," etc., etc. The other
day she came in. She was very in
different about the bill. She would
pay it sometime, she said, but the
school had cut it's term down and She
had not as much money as she ex-
pected.
| 1 was thinking sad, long thoughts
about this condition Of things when
in came man-the same man who
had said capital had it's heels on the
neck of labor-and wanted copy Of
the paper. He wanted to see nice
little story written about an enter
prise in which he was interested. He
got the paper and remarked that as
it said Gree Press" he wouldn't Of
| fer to pay for it. Nor did he thank
us for the article or the paper.
Then I propped my chin on my
hand and thought to myself, "What is
the matter with tie world, anyway"
l don't know, but do know this: If
the world was my child and l had that
large expanse of knee which success
full mothers have, l would turn up
its little dress and administer that
we'll known counter-irritant which
mothers have found so successful
against general naughtiness.
The truth of the matter, l suspect,
is that most of us are pious frauds
and haven't enough sense of humor to
admit. Most of us are discontented
and unthanful and lacking in faith.
If we really believed in God and the
general scheme of things we would
not be so afraid of each other and
afraid of life so much.
We are soft generation and we
are always looking for some sort OF
medicine or political pay or socialism
that will cure life of it's ills. Instead
of getting out and going to work we
want the government to fix things so
we can get along without work. In
stead of forty acres and mule we
all want town house and car now.
We expect too much. The miracle
, in this world is not to have things
happen in a sort of supernatural way
without any human agency, but to
see man get out and go to work and
; make things happen through his in
dustry and intelligence,
1t was all right for Elijah to sit in
the cave and wait for the ravens to
feed him but it wouldn't do for all of
US to adopt that plan now.
We need to study that most potent
of all laws, Cause and Effect. Given
a certain cause you will get certain
effect and you won't get anything
else. If you have scrub COW you
won't get either the quality or the
quantity of milk you will get from a
pure bred Jersey. If you have poor
starved piece of land you won't get
the crop from it that you get from a
highly titled piece of land. You don't
expect to. Why, then, should we put
so little of intelligence or work into
| life itself and expect to get big re-
turns? Can't be done.
1t seems to me we have got to look
! after this cause and effect business a
e. little more. Granted that the general
run of people are caught in web
of circumstances from which they
cannot free themselves. Still the
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