The Glenwood post., 1921-03-19
Cut Out 6RUD6E
and Be HAPPY

the door the former enlisted man
swung with trained first on the end of
the others jaw. 1t was a clean knock
out.
The ssory told by the assailant IN
police court was of extra details to
disagreeable tasks. He said he had left
the service with fixed .ambition to
get even with the captain and had taken
boxing lessons for years in order to be
sure to have " "tirst-class wallop'
when he found his former boss.
Very likely the ex-captain deserved
what he received, and much more-tor
it wasn't very much after all. Cold
water, few strips of court plaster and
a period of repose are effectual RENE
dies in such cases. If he has been the
brute in civil life that he appears to
have been in Uniform, it is unlikely that
he has been moved to adopt as his mot
to the golden rule.
| The man who struck out from the
shoulder must have made rather heavy
investment. He had to travel about
one thousand miles at three cents
mile, pay for boxing lessons and settle
with the police court, but no set of fig
ures behind dollar sign adequately
represents his outlay. He carried
grudge with him for three years, and
that looks like q waste of time. 1t is
extremely improbable that his captain
was worth it.
A private grudge is the most trouble
some of pets. 1t requires attention sew
eral times day and is very likely to
wake its owner up at night About 3
A. M. on the night that Barney Man
ster and Ward escaped from Charles
town state prison burly figure ap-
peared outside the walls and inquired
eagerly the names of the men who had
gained their freedom. On being told,
he exploded with oaths of disappoint
ment. He had hoped it was a certain
''big stiff who is doing ten years, be-
cause l wanted to find him and knock
his block oE.'
Unfortunately grudges are not cou-
fined to any one stratum of the com
munity. A few years ago man who
moves in what is called the 'highest
society spent several hours of his
valuable time in trying to undo another
man ''because he played me a very
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| Grudges are one of the things that
keep the small town small, as everyone
who has lived in village knows. III
on opposite sides of main street there
aSe two churches of the same denomi
nation, the explanation is found in the
historic "split'' when old Jonas Has
kins, indignant at the affront that old
Josh Hawkins had offered to the yel-
low dog of the Haskins family, gather
ed his half of the congregation and
moved to the other side of the street.
to start new "religious society,"
And to this day mutual coolness be
tween those who worship at the shrine
maintained by Hawkins and those who
went out with Haskins, defiies all eff
forts at church unity and assures spi-
ritual deafness for the community
OF course, both Haskins and Hawkins
miil tell you that they have :" forgiven
hut the way each puts it is this: ''i
can forgive but 1 can't forget" For
getting is the real virtue. Unforgot-
ten, an ugly memory becomes a chronic
hatred which, so the psychologists have
lately discovered, actually generates
poison in the physical body. The per
son who suffers most is the one who
nurses the grievance.
The real reason that your talented
friend is just missing it' instead of
being in, the place which his abilities
should have won for him is the highly
colored picture of his enemy which
he carries inside his brain.
The pride of the red Indian was his
own implacability, which kept him on
the war path until either he or his
lencmy was scalped. And it was that
which made Indian tribes exterminate
one another.
Sometimes white nations seem to
have arranged their affairs after the
patterns drawn by aborigines. It Is
mass hatred-often artiflcially gener-
ated-which helps to impose the crush
4 inc burden of ornaments upon the
world. They cannot forget, and so bat
tleships are always building and gener-
ations of young men are trained for
mobilization.
1t is no accident that good natured
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