Evening star., 1922-11-22


is to be pasted on every automobile
parked within reach of the Automo-
tive Trade Association of Washing
ton. Fine Even Bully" Wonder
If that is an indication that automo-
bilists have greater need of the les
body else? What a pleasant world
this would be If all the scowls were
supplanted with gracious, friendly
smiles! What does courtesy mean
but the spirit of kindly interest in
others comfort and pleasure? 1t
manifest respect for others; on the
contrary every act of courtesy. mark
ing the refinement of the one, show
ing such consideration of others. not
only brings kindly thanks from the
beneficiary, but a self-consciousness
of worthliness to the one thus play
ing the part of a gentleman.
So, next week, everybody in Wash
ington will vie with each other in
courtesy as well as in safety. Won't
that be A happy change? One can
not harbOr unkind thoughts and be
courteous. Courtesy does not mean
mere bowling and saying Excuse me"
while half-concealing superciiious
air. Courtesy is like mercy-it is
not strained. IT droppeth like the
gentle dew of Heaven. 1t blesSeth
both the giver and the receiver.
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1t would not be historically correct
to say that former President Wilson's
fourteen points have found a coun
terpart in the fourteen groups of
woman lobbies now preparing to
stick pins into Congress if their par
ticular isSueS are not given support.
But woe to the congressman who fails
to see the point when the fair ladies
call upon him. If it were possible
merely to refer all of their points
back to the lobbies. with request
that they get together and determine
what the womau's bloc really wants,
life as statesman would be easier.
4 democratic Secretary of the Navy
and now a republican controller
douches the whole Navy with cold
water by refusing to pay for spring
water: he says it is personal mat
ter whether naval men drink at all
Like Queen Marie Antoinette. whose
solution for the. breadless mob's dis
tress was her suggestion that if they
had no bread they should eat cake.
that controller has no objection TO
uttermilk-providing the men pay
for the goat that gives it.
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Senator Capper makes tie putting
Shoals d condition on which the sena-
tor will permit the republican party
to continue in power. The terms of
the 100-year lease of the waterpower
are mere matters of detail. On what
meat doth this. our Caesar. feed. that
he becomes the arbiter of our fate. ds
we'll as the maker of our go-cartS? :?
And will he get all the muscles oEt
Of the trenches before Christmas?
"A fool can ask questions that Il
wise man cannot answer" Mr.. Edi-
son is far from being that kind of
questioner, but surely he expects too
much of the wise men when he p-o-
says he has not very much use for
college, men. If college graduates
don't know the answers to those
questions. what folly to ask them!
Either abolish colleges or teacn Edi-
sonia therein. Mr.. Edison objects to
college men because they object to
getting their hands soiled III real
work; and, besides, they all expect 10
be made superintendentS after six
weeks of apprenticeship. Why worry?
What the college iiedgling knows, at
the end of six weeks teither end) is
a hundred times what he will confess
he comprehends at the end of six
years. Cheer up. Mr.. Edison. he is
too young at the end of six weeks to
be held accountable. Let him paddle
around in the breakers until he is
half drowned. and then there viii! be
hope that he may sun himself upon
the beach:
And. departing. leave behind him
Footprints on the sands of time.
Hon. Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck
the neWly,elected coneresswoman.
who will fill out a fractional term
says she has come into the political
world like a clap of thunder" She
has only few months to serve, and
after her the deluge.
Wonder if she is related to Huck
Finn Huck was a philosopher. Huck
discovered that Solomon. he no wise
man. Solomon had 1000 wives.
Oughter had a bjler fact'ry. kase If
you have b'iler fact'ry and want
silence, ye kin shet down a b'iler
fact'ry. Never kin shet down 1000
wives"
Mrs. Huck' says that it is usual for
IN In, Ia ho
ground the first three or four years;
but as she is elected only. for a few
months, and is the daughter of a
former senator. and got her early
education in the Capitol, she will con-
slider her years of apprenticeship as
past, and begin talking on the "Do-It-
Now" plan.
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FormUr Senator Rebecca Latimer
FELTON,, having retired from political