The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-11-21
DON'T KILL THE MOUSE.
If OXEN DID 1T.
RELIGIOUS POWER LASTS.
ARMY HAPPY-KlNG SAFE.

If OXEN DID 1T.
RELIGIOUS POWER LASTS.
ARMY HAPPY-KlNe SAFE.
Mr.. Zangwill telling Americans that
their pep" is lost motion, that they
are undignihed, unjust, lack shame,
etc, will be useful to the wise and
annoying only to the foolish.
1t doesn't matter what Mr.. Zangwill
isis there any truth in what he says?
If a humble mouse crawled from a
sewer, looked at you with his long
%quivering nose and said, You are a
shameless creature and don't know
anything" you should not try TO kill
that mouse.
You should ask yourself, rs there
truth in what the mouse says? If so.
how can | correct my fault?"
The bad feature of Mr.. ZangwilPs
talk is the harm it may do to his CO.
religionists among those already pref
udiced. 1t cannot hurt him, for he
will 0 be back, safe in England,
where they will approve quite gener-
ally his views on America.
But his inaccurate belittling Of the
Ku Klux Khan may cause trouble to
better Jews than Zangwill. And his,
ridiculing of Christian Science does
not come with good grace from one
belonging to a race that has so long
complained land JUSTIFY of religious
prejudice.
However, at his worst, Mr.. Zangwill
is to be thanked. The United States
and it's people have a thousand de
fects, many that Mr.. Zangwill could
not see or understand. To make US
think about them is to render a ser
vice.
Correspondents report that Indiana
is controlled politically by the Ku
Klux Khan, with that control already
strong in Texas, Oklahoma, and Ar
kansas, now spreading into Ohio and
other States.
Everything depends on how control
is acquired. If. through the ballot box,
no one may complain. Nox popuil,
suprensa lex este holds god whether
you like the vox Of the moment or not
In a wild West exhibition a dozen
are turned into tbs arena wild
cows they are called. C6N615x E<z1f
lassos and empty beer bottles are turn
ed loose with the cows. They lasso
them. throw them down, sit on them.
and the cowboy that first manages TO
fill his beer bottle with milk, no mat
ter how, as the COW pants and strug-
giles, receives a special reward
TO many civilized beings that seems
all right.
What should we say about a collec-
ton of oxen if they gave a similar ex-
hibition, only turning nursing human
mothers into the arena instead of
COWS. We might criticize them Sc
verely for lack of delicate feeling.
Religion is still powerful in national
affairs. In Germany it plays a greater
part than Socialism, bolsheyism. or
capitalism. The Wittelsbaeh, royal
Catholic family OF Bavaria, who fur
nished Kings to Germany long before
the Protestant Ho~henzolferns yer
known. are again rivals of those Ho-
henzollerns for the rule of Germany,
when she shall become too weak to
rule herself.
Stresemann. managing the German
republic. allows the HohenZollern
Crown Prince to return from Holland,
that his royal Protestant influence
might Offset the revolutionary royal
Catholic influence OF the Wittelsbachs
= n---- t. Lot nna ~nral rp1iplnn
fight another is his plan.
Frank Falos, a crippled laborer.
takes his four young children TO the
State Workmen's Compensation Blu
reau and says, You feed them,
can't"
Ten thousand voices will cry What,
you can't feed them? You must feed
them. It's your duty" To that every
body saws, Amen" yet the crippled
father would get no reward, except a
quiet conscience. for feeding these
children, whereas the community IN
general would get the value OF their
work.
Parents are WORKING for the nation,
and supremely wise Providence makes
them eager TO do il: glad TO saerlnee
themselves for the coming generation
Mussolini increases the pay OF sol
diers so that they are as well paid as
civilian workers. That's an echo OF
old Rome. They took good care OF
soldiers in those ancient days that
Mussolini admires and would bring
back.
A ~eontented army means a safe die
tator.
The old plan was to give land 10 the
old soldiers and whatever they could
take to the young ones. DOC pay
probably viii do as well.
HARMONY CLUB.
Miss Mary Stephenson organized her
Sunday School class last Tuesday eve
,f.~ Vrhiel will he known as the HaT-