The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-01-04
"CRAB APPLES" NEW YEAR
5 RESOLUTIONS IN RHYME
North Lincoln Bard Starts the New
Year With Bit of Prose
Poetry.

Poetry.
Let's all stand and sing-All Hail
the New Year, new styles and new
inventions. But forbid that we
should cease to scheme or lay aside
pretensions. OF course we have pro
missed 1922 to do everything that's
right, and we'll do it if we don't
forget, or get in corner tight. But
our resolutions shall not interfere,
with Mammon's Turing call, and
when we're beckoned to, we'll break
the string and let the resolutions
fall!
You don't have to get in an air
plane and fly above the ground in
order to see what's going on below.
With a little observation and sober
thought you see the big drama act
ed day or night. This is called
fast age, and it might also be called
a mysterious and complicated age.
Things are not what they look to be
every time, and many times when
things look to be entirely wrong,
they are entirely consistent. 1t is
our purpose to show at different
times both sides of what some are
pleased to call right and what others
are pleased to call wrong. We rave
discovered the fact that often what
appears to be wrong, is not alto.
gether wrong, and RIGHT is often
blended with wrong. Of course we
don't expect to convert any one to
our views but most anything will do
to fill a newspaper! Oh, what have
we said?
Christmas came, and with 1t the
usual happenings; homicides, muir
der, Joy and sorrow. 1t all belongs
to life. Sunshine and clouds are ma
tural and when clouds gather, it is
proof that sunshine preceded and
will also follow. You cannot be so
foolish as to expect everything to be
lovely all Of the time, and when you
get real knock, it feels better when
it ceases to hurt.
The 26th inst. was fatal day for
cottontails and Dummies in parts of
this community. With dogs to trail
and tree the animals, and men with
guns to shoot them made it seem
that life is uncertain and death Is
sure" Another forceful reminder
came with the close of the hunt, viz:
when it rains it pours." A large
vessel full of dressed squirrels and
of [o nq
for the reason that their home tables
were loaded with divers meats and
other good things prepared for
Christmas. Thousands in these Uni
ted States and in other parts of the
world were hungry and nothing Wis
ibIe to eat, while others were annoy
ed with a surplus. Strange!
We were fortunate spectator in
Brookhaven on Christmas eve" and
enjoyed immensely the display of
Xmas toys and goodies" In con-
nection with that we enjoyed equal
ly as we'll, looking at the shoppers
and varied faces. 80 per cent of
those faces were strange to us, and
we wondered where they all came
from. Old acquaintances are pass
ing away and there is, somehow,
missing link between them and the
younger ones. In this age there is
very little in common between the
back number" and the modern
youngster. There is a chasm! And
how it came about, or who is re-
sponsible for that chasm is not
mystery, but it is a subject that
would have to be discussed in
hushed tone. Besides, it would do
no good to discuss the matter. Just
leave 'em alone and they'll come
home, with their conscience hurting
them.
1t seems that Adam and Eve were
the originators of style. Especially
wearing apparel, but their posterity
has changed the original style into
every conceivable shape and form un-
til they are getting dangerously near
the original. Some of the modern
styles are scathingly criticized by
many who can only see what they
see. In the COS there was the hoop
skirt, with a network of wire and
when a good woman of those days
stood in the center of that circle
there was surrounding space e.
nough for Swain S Show. But in the
SOS the dimensions were decreased
in the skirt and they used wire a.
gain for an attachment. They call
it a bussel or some such name. So
the styles have gone from bad to
worse and from worse to some better
until we don't know what the next
will be.
There have been some precious
truths presented to the public thru
the press within the past few months
but did the dear public grasp them
or relish them? We make special
mention of a series. of articles in
Vardaman's Weekly by DR.. L. E. Hall
of Hattiesburg. A brilliant phiIoso-
pher and scrupulous Christian are
the beautiful characteristics of DR..
Hall and if you failed to read his
series you have indeed missed some
thing invaluable. A child can read
lily understand his philosophy and
the beautiful way he presents it is
keenly relished and appreciated by
all who read it. May he live long
to man the gun by which he stands.
80 years ago, these ball-bearing
found it necessary to go
to an individual and turn loose their
pent-up thoughts; but now there are |
telephones. 80 years ago you ira
veled the public roads in buggies,
wagons and on horseback, now you
have the automobile. 80 years ago
you could attend church services and
feel the presence Of the Holy Spirit.
Now you feel the absence of it. And
SO 1t goes. What was, is not, and
what is, was not,