Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-25

In this glad spring season, one
can creep along country roads and
eat the dust kicked up by the other
fellows car. @ .v
There are some very remarkable
infant prodigies, but we have yet to
hear of one who voluntarily washes
his ears.
About the only time a small town
really enjoys scandal is when the
preacher is caught holding the So
prano's hand. r.
Why are all these men idle ?
Aren't there few more streets
where perfectly good paving can be
torn up and replaced?
Frankly our ambition is to tour
Europe as celebrity and get paid
for telling folks over there what we
think of 'em.
"All mankind feels an urge back
to the wild" And as we study the
headlines, it occurs to us that it
hasn't far to go.
Fortunately, however, the country
doesn't depend for its food upon the
agricultural knowledge of the agri-
cultural bloc.
Where does Mr.. Bryan get the no.
ton that he can save his regular
$17,OO Ga year while holding down a
seat in the senate?
Any amateur Burbank can cross
wild oats with extract of corn and
raise an enormous crop of cain.
The season approaches when the
family must choose between express
sive graduation dresses and new cas-
ings for the rear wheels.
If ever we learn to understand
the language of monkeys, We'll prob
ably discover that they object to the
Darwinian theory.
In the matter of civil service jobs,
nobody seems able to distinguish be-
tween the good of the service and
the good of the party.
After girl finishes her education
her mental equipment enables her to
annex one of the boys who dropped
out of the ninth grade.
Well, why not use our idle ships to
carry tourists? Apparently that is
the only chance to let them have an
other crack at the taxpayer.
Have you registered 1t is cit
izen's duty and tax payers obliga-
ton.
We would like to suggest that a
new committee be added to the stand
ing list in the legislature, an acid, test
committee to kill out all freak, uncon-
stitutionalities and superfluities. This
is not a new suggestion, but empha-
sizing it may hasten contamination.
Ex-Governor Albert Gilchrist is not
so insistent on "call" and has SHE'D
his sombrero into the squared circle.
During his last campaign the General
carried three monkeys around with
him. This was in the pre-Volstead
days. A spacious hip pocket may be
found even more efficacious and pro-
duce the same illusory results.
West Florida legislators were
laughing in their sleeves when they
agreed on the. compromise reappor-
tionment amendment, but a careful
analysis of the amendment shows that
south Florida, exclusive of Duval, Ba-
ker, Nassau, st. Johns and Columbia,
will have fifty out of the ninety-five
members of the lower house.
If two or three God, stiff backed,
honest-to-goodness legislators could
be elected who will insist that all
measures in the legislature be passed
in accordance with constitutional pro-
visions many of the mistakes and
quasi-frauds practiced would be elm
mated. Reading of bills in full on
final passage and publication of. all
local bills for thirty days before pas
sage are provisions of the constitution
enacted with a very clear idea of the
projections afforded the people.