The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-24
THE FELLOW WHO KNOWS

Did you ever notice that it is the fellow
who has never had any experience in any
particular line Of business, who is always found
in the knOw-it-all column, offering fatherly
advice and telling the chaps who own the busi-
ness how to run their affairs?
Did you ever notice that it is the chap who
never attended school, who is always prepared,
ready, willing and anxious to tell us how to
run the schools, how they could be operated
at the minimum of expense and how to get
the maximum of instruction from the most
mediocre teacher?
Did you ever notice that it is the fellow
who doesn't know jackplane from a foot adze,
that knows all about the lumber industry,
while the chap VINO does not know hod from
a wagon-load Of brick is the one who can figure
out to gnats bristle just how much per
thousand the mason should have for laying
those bricks into the cementing mortar?
Did you ever notice that it is the chap who
does not know the difference between an ed-
torial and nut quad, who is ready, at all hours
of the day or night to tell the publisher Just
how the newspapers of the country should be
run?
Did you ever notice that, nine times out of
ten, the fellows who will chase wagonload of
Choc all the way from Coalgate to the Golden
Gate and run bottle of Four Roses from Okla
homa City to the south boundary of the Red
River, are the ones who groan the loudest and
pray longest for the enforcement of the Vol
stead act?
Did you ever notice that the fellows who
will bet their pile on a pair of deuces, assuming
that the hole card is the cutter, are the ones
who make the biggest speeches and write the
longest articles favoring blue laws?
Did you ever notice that, ninety and nine
times out of possible hundred. it is the fellow
who digs the lead out of his scale weights, that
wipes his eyes the oftenest and sobs the loud.
est, at Sunday services, over the sins of the
world?
Did you ever notice that it is the chap who
plants cornchops in place of corn and sets out
buckwheat cakes in place of beaten biscuits,
who is always waiting around the corner, look.
ing for chance to tell the farmer how to
raise millet, cotton and the devil?
Did you ever notice that it is the hoary-
headed sinner, the man without the least con-
ception Of modesty and common decency, who
is ever declaming against the sinfulness of the
world and telling us that the young men and
young women of today are hell-bent for de-
Did you ever notice that it is the fellow
who has proven himself failure in all things,
that is the chap who can tell you how to get
rich by properly running your business?
Did you ever notice that the employer who
is always seeking to impress upon the minds
of his employees that it is sinful to watch the
clock, is the man who is the least apprecative
of good services Loyalty rendered?
Did you ever notice that it is always the
chap who declaims the loudest against capital
and the capitalists, that makes the hardest
taskmaster when the goddess of fortune smiles
upon him?
Did you ever notice that the man who is the
kindest and most considerate to the stray dogs
and cats and who pats the dirtiest street urchin
on the head, is the one who growls the oftenest
and carries the biggest crouch to his own
home?
Did you ever notice that it is the fellow
who carries the longest face to church on Sun
day, who prays the longest and the loudest,
who mourns the most ostentatiously about the
children of men who are destined to burn for
ever and day in the flames of hell unless they
mend their ways, who will cheat you and lie
to you and defraud you on Monday Tuesday
Wednesday, Thursday Friday and up to quar-
ter of minute to midnight, setting the clock
back if necessary Saturday night?