The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-12-20
PERT, PiTHY AND PUNGENT
PARAGRAPHS
By Col. T. G.. POWNALL
Another "PrOblem."

City transportation it is, we are
told by city fathers. The people made
the congestion and they alone can
cure it, and will cure it. Twenty
years ago, when vehicles moved one
fourth as fast as they do now, the
people went when and where they
pleased without fuss or friction.
Then, most people walked, and regu-
lation and parking space were not
heard of. The inconvenience of mo-
toring in cities can not be cured by
regulation. Twenty years hence la
borers, clerks and others will find it
pays to walk to their places of bust
ness. Extremes cannot endure.
A Bandit.
As a boy, l was thrilled with the
career of Jesse James. l could not
see how he could be a robber and a
good family man and neighor. La
ter | found that there is good in the
worst of us. A bandit has one char
acteristic we all admire-courage
and compared with one who, by falsi-
flying, sells worthless stocks, or with
a politician who votes for appropria-
tons to aid himself and friends, or
one who will not work, or one who
whips his wife, he outpoints them for
decercy and manhood.
A Message.
In it are these words:
"To neglect it is to postpone it, to
obstruct it by unsound proposals is
to become unworthy of public conf
dence, and untrue to public trust"
Coolidge.
The New York Times, the great
democratic paper comments: "Grover
Cleveland or Theodore Roosevelt
could not have said it better. It is
a message with program and re-
veals first class ability
Looking For a Job.
/ What job? Firing a stationary
engine" Only a few of them. "Watch-
man at a bank" Not many of them.
Out Of a job and looking for one,
/ but all the time looking for what you
/ like and not what is offered to you.
/ The man who really wants work, al
ways gets it, in good times and bad
times. There is work for all, always
has been. Work? Why it's right
before your eyes all the time.
4 Man.
] have one in mind here in the city,
and my Impressions Of him, gained
|by contact with him. after he had
made a business success, made me
curious to know if when he began,
hard up rs he was, he was the
same truthful, honest man he is now.
! A correct man, twenty years his SEN
ior, told me that there was no change
and that he was always so. There's
real American man. Many, who
have plenty, can play honest" but if
they were not always honest l doubt
| if they are now.
QUAIL.
! Can she knit, bake, sew and keep
house? Ne she~went to school and
had a good time, and don't know how
and married young. Then what?
She went to housekeeping and the
girl left. Husband says we'll go to
the hotel or Aunt James. Not John.
I'll cook it and show the girl we can
get on without her. The wife is
mother and she does not despair, and
she works and sings and cares for
baby, and John is happy and so is
she. That's a real woman. Moral,
to be happy, work and hope.
Eternity.
1t is every hour of the day and
night, here now, yesterday, today and
| forever. 1t is not after death nor be-
fore life any more than now, while l
write this paragraph. All days are
holy days and each a part of the text.
Reason is being emancipated and the
| lessons of science are taking root.
Jealousy, fear and hatred are dying
along with ghosts and myths, slowly
but surely. The day dawns and the
world grows better.