Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-10-03
NEIGHBORS.

In the matter of neighbors, dist
ance lends enchantment. 1t is moi
difficult to love your neighbor a:
yourself if you don't know too much
about him. 1t is not difficult to shed
tears over the woes of the poor hea-
then in far off Africa, for the inter-
vening ocean affords an element of
romance. At distance of five thou
sand miles, you can't smell him.
To love the downtrodden in other
lands does us small credit. We do
not love the individual, but only the
ideal conception of him our imagina-
ton has formed. If he lived next
door, we would phone the Health De-
partment and demand that some OF
the dirt be scraped from his hide and
the matted tangle removed from his
infested hair.
Nor should we be censured too Sc
verely if we fail to love the neigh
Dor next door. We know his faults
and his failings, and we yearn to cor
rect them. Our spiritual natures may
urge US to love him, but our carnal
natures urge us to bounce brick off
his head for the good of his soul and
the general uplifting of the commu-
nifty.
He has a dog that bowls at night,
or hens that forage the neighborhood
for their provender; he has daugh-
ter who can't sing but has yet to
learn of her misfortune, or he prac-
tices on cornet after nightfall; his
garbage can smells to heaven, or he
fills the alley with goods boxes and
hin cans; he does many, many things
no considerable white man would do
and an unfortunate respect for good
manners stills our tongues when we
would call upon him and tell him in
high-powered language just what
kind of man he is.
II is doubtless wicked not to love
your neighbor; but it is even more
wicked to lie about it. And no reg
ular man born of woman can love g
neighbor who lives next door and
makes himself a nuisance.
tag SHORT EDS ...... .... ..... shrdlu
Noble purpose: Ku Klux; ten bucks
Brief history of glorious war: Pre-
, per-; despair; repair.
,fe is getting to be just one darn,
= risis after another.
STORY repeats itself. Paragraph
err have the same weakness.
Old King Coal once called for his fid-
dIers, not his sharp-shooters.
There are over five million unem-
pio. ed, not counting Government
e Ks.
Tie income tax exemption of $500
+ = each dependent will prove a great
relief to everybody except the stork.
Let's see; how was it the afflicted
peoples got along before Columbus
discovered America?
Eventually the nations will agree
concerning everything except a YER
sion of the war.
All this talk about a hard winter
indicates that we are not yet relieved
of excess prophets.
There is something peculiarly
touching about a bald-headed mans
condemnation of bobbed hair.
1t is asserted that the Disarma-
ment Conference will mark the first
page of new era of history. You
might call it tn, rontispeace.
There are e kinds of poets:
Those who, vxi zeal poetry, and
those who makp BETTY good living.
The man W y: "a woman is
as old as she hadn't seen her
at seven o'clock be morning after
a party.
Engineers say the dams in this
country are too weak. They might
try prefixing few adjectives.
And yet the suckers that men do
hive after them, and breathe a pure
ar that is unknown in jails.
The few things woman can't ac-
cc olish with a hair pin, she can
h"ndle very nicely with a can opener.
When the affable stranger offers
a cigar, you can't tell whether he is
rolitician or a hootch peddler.
The old-fashioned farmer bought
gold bricks, but he was probably toe
wise to put his faith in hair restor-
ers.
But if you build your house in tn"
depths Of the forest, the coal man
won't make a beaten path to your
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