Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-06-16


It was some seventeen years ago
Maybe it was a little more
| sat beside her, and in mine
| felt her little hand entwine;
My heart was filled with love so warm
I dared to kiss her dainty palm,
And looked into those azure eyes,
AS blue as the bluest summer skies;
And then | drew her to my knee,
That l might even closer see
The beauty of her sweet young face;
When she felt my fond embrace,
Her pretty head she bowed to rest
Close upon my fond, manly breast.
Twas then l kissed her cheek so fair,
And fOndly stroke her sunny hair.
Just then a voice fell on my ear:
Daddy, bring that blessed baby here,
You thoughtless man, she wants her
dinner"
Twas my wife's voice, or I'm a sinner
And now, bless Pat, she'll soon be
home,
And with her "sheep-skin" she will
come;
And when she comes, I'll tell you
more,
Pm goin' to kiss'n hug'er till she's
sore.
And know right now thereu be no
For Pm her Daddy" anyhow.
I have been much exercised. have
spent restless, sleepless nights, wor-
rled Cvr my inability to comprehend
FULLY Prof. Einstein's theory of Re
latlvlty." I've religiously sought in
formation from every available source.
The Literary Digest, Worlds Work,
books on science, Homer, Dante, Goe-
the, Brann's Iconoclast, Baptist-R
Hector, the daily papers, etc, and
found not a grain of comfort Not
content to dismiss the subject in this
unsettld state Of mind, | continued nv
reflections believing that if | am at
all capable of reasoning and careful
observation that | would finally be
rewarded by arriving at a correct and
comforting conclusion, remembering
that the great John Hunter cautioned
us to never reason on general prin-
clples only when we can be masters
of all the facts" Well, I've gotten
the facts. Since coming into the light
the Einstein theory of "Relativity'' is /
actually simple to me, and is easily !
explained-so simple that the way
farer, etc, may cOmprehend-if he
isn't a fool: You just simply take a
line-imaginary or whatever is /
at hand, and extend it kinder hori-
zontally out into inf1nity as far as
you can. You then chase this line
out through the universe until you
meet yourself coming back. That's
one way. Or you can take a common
ray of light and bend it slightly in
the middle and tie it to the tail of
a comet 1t may not be a good fit, /
but the tangent of its radius revolving /
in harmony with segments of the apex
will set the larger molecules in mo-
tion-a fact which I've been unable to
understand until now, and not yet gen
orally known. Or to simplify and make /
still palmer; you take any kind of
parallel and run it right through the
solar plexus of the nearest star, and |
you'll have a perpendicular ''parabol-
ic curve" as we scientists call it.
That's all there is to it. You just
make your chart as these truths I'M
fold themselves to you and you've got
Relatively" It's all so beautiful in
its simplicity, and such a sweet, COM
forting thought-once you get it-and
opens up our mental horizon to broad
err fields of intellectually than ever
dreamed of before.
De Quincy says: IF once a man
INDUCES himself in murder, very soon
he comes to think but little of rob
bing; and from robbing he comes next
to drinking and misunderstanding,
and from that to incivility and pro
crastination. Once begin upon the
downward path you never know
where to stop. Many a man has
dated his ruin from some murder or
ether that perhaps he thought little
of at the time"
And besides all that it is not quite
fair to the other fellow, and a bad
habit.
don't belong to that party, and its
probably none of my business, but I
srould like to know on whom the Re
publicans will lay the blame, now the