Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-01-21
THREADS
BY Nice.

0y NhcO.
Being an freshman with a sunny"
disposition. Threads q. NJ. Is slow 10
find fault. lie had rather laugh than 10
cry anytime. lie In a firm believer In
the old lhreadbare statement: Laugh
aud the world laughs With you. cry and
you cry alone" Sometimes We SHOULD
cry when We do not. In fact our
sunny" disposition often gets Us In
bad. We would smile II we were going
10 shot. No amount Of punishment
will bring tears tn our eyes. but We
have always assumed the role Of
goat" Tor everybody else.
Punish us. and We viii laugh; "cuss'
us and we viii smile. But bo sure 10
leave others alone. often we have been
told by 'conlding friends" that on.
| pleasant" smile WAS an asset. We be.
live they we're sincere We have beea
"cusscd," discussed" abused" liam.
basted" and almost hung ON many oc.
casions. but our smile remains intact.
We would not trade II for all the gold
In the world. as we feel that q warm
| ~ AUaU N0lu
gold"
hut what we started out 90 say IL
this: With all our smiles our heavt
Is tender. We have often wished that
We might suffer for all the babies In
the land. We have wished that n
might be possible for us o. help the
poor and pcnnilcss-that We might Ill.
vide our bread with them. We would
be willing 10 go hungry II others might
be- fed, and We would emile all the
while. There In no greater pleasure
than Tor us 10 make someone else hap.
py. We often 30 without In order that
others may have at least some Of llfes
pleasures And we are happy.
We have had the "lpby" question up
before. and Just at this time we feel
that II must again he given our con.
sideration. Threads ~ booster and
not a knOcker. We have PROMISED not
tO lambast our readers. and We will
make our word good, hut at the same
time We are going To make n few state.
ments that may prove interesting 10
"our customers"
iii OScaslohaiiy We attend the picture
show. Ross Rogers has made this pos.
sible-with a pass. when our wife
overlOoks a nickle. we generally use 10
for war tax. However. as she is an ex.
pert pick pocket" It's very seldom that
she Overlooks even one poor "jltney."
The other day. however, when We went
home. We put nlckle under the door
step. and ON the following day We
marched out 10 the picture Just as
brave and bold as regular pay cus
toner"
Shortly after we had been seated Q
baby began crying. From the amount
VI cry" he was putting out. we pre-.
sumo that his pain was very severe.
His mother was embarrassed, and -
were We as We couldn't tell what tho
girl IN tights" was saying. In fact
that didn't bother us very much, M we
went to see" rather than 60 "hear''
anyway But some people began
squirming around as II they could
crush the kid. That made us fighting
mad" The very idea % getting
pecved at a fifteen'months old baby.
n We felt sorry for the Kid and the
mother. and u We could haye summoned
up Just little more courage We would
have volunteered 10 quiet" the kid, an
the poor mother showed that she really
had desire to see the show. We didn't
care 81 much about Il ourself. How.
ever. we kept our seat and the mother
took the little fellow out OF the theatre.
AT that time We were just as neutral
as Holland was during the war. The
Kid" was SCARED. and the mother wac
embarrassed.
| But then. shortly after she go, OUT
IN the hall war broke out. and thar
baby" got all that was coming 10 him
lin fact, everything considered. we
think too much. our neutrality failed
U.S. We were strictly Tor the baby but
after thoroughly considering what 20
do We decided 10 keep our seat. We
wanted To tell the mother 20 go on back
~ the show, that We would keen tho
boy" But who knows hut that such
statement would have been safe. To
tell mother what To do with har
child Is almost like flirting with al
undertaken and drinking hair tonic.
We have bccn to the show several
times within the past twelve months
ana II IN nothing uncommon for n
baby" to cry We have thoroughly
considered the question and our find.
ings are as follows
When n baby gets scared. ar hot. or
mad--or possibly safety punched
IN his leg--he's goinE To cry In spite
OF tho diCkcns And as u In almost
impossible Tor q mother 10 ascertain
jus, what In ailing the "youngster," we
feel that she should not bo too ready
Ia punish. Show some sympathy-s
that's our motto.
We feel sorry Tor the mother, too.
and In order To help all parties con.
cerned. We suggest that the Humane
SCrie,y" station representative az
each theatre. This representative will
care for all children who refuse 20 see
the show. by doing this mothers will
he able to witness the entire perform.
ancc, baby will bc able TO keep sweet"
and everybody In the building win bs
happy. What do you think about q?
III OF course we have offered the above
as a suggestion. and people will not be
compelled To abide by Il for the time
any way. Yet we are going TO any right
here that We are strictly "agin" whip.
ping babies for getting scared nj shows.
III We may be right and We may be
wrong. Wa often think we are right
when We are wrong. Take for Instance,
iii Harding's announcement TINT he waa