The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-08-07
PERT, PITHY AND
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
By Col. T. G. POwnall, in the
Cumberland News.
Water

Inc HOOu CAME anu went ana Ie1U
many impressions of many kinds. l
am told that it is no use to think if
it gets no results, but that is a sordid
| idea.
Looking at the raging waters, l
wondered whether they had ever
dashed the banks of the Amazon or
carried a boat down the Mississippi,
or gone under the great bridge across
the st. Lawrence, or in the iceberg
that sank the Titanic, or slaked the
thirst of the inhabitants of the Nile
Woolly clouds encompass the earth
and shift the waters of the oceans to
the lends of the earth" 1t is marvel
Gus, but not miraculous. The power
that does it can be called by one name
only-Almighty.
They Will Not
Theodore Roosevelt said, "The Am
erican people will not take their own
part" They know that farm legis-
lation is sham but they say nothing.
They know that the bonus bill is
not fair to the soldiers, premature and
deceptive, but they will not say So.
They know that the lawmakers who
go on voting to pile up expenses
should be left at home, but will they
act?
Roosevelt knew human nature as
few did; not always right but right
this time. - .s.:.,s,
No Hurry
1t appears that the oil, gas and coal
people have been trying to market it
all and leave nothing for posterity.
They have found that there is no
use to hurry, and that developing
more of commodity than the people
will buy, means disaster. There is no
use to develop more than can be sold.
No rush is necessary. Catch all the
fish you can eat, but don't catch more
just for the thrill it gives. 1t is very
expensive to overdo anything.
A Condition
Inventive genius has done its work.
Labor saving machinery is every
where. One machine will do the work
of ten, fifty, one hundred men. 1t is
an established fact that if farm and
factory be operated full capacity one
year, the output would be enough for
two years. This condition was long
| time coming, but it is here.
1t never was so in this country. Mr..
Gary, Dunn, Wall Street and the In
tied States Chamber of Commerce
have not said so, but it is so, and can
be changed by law. 1t is economic
and came by evolution, and if it ever
goes, it will go that way.The entrance
of women into the field of labor has
tened it, an dtheir numbers will grow.
Pride
1t is the most obnoxious trait any
human possesses. What has any
body to be proud of? If she is beau
tiful and proud, she has no charm. If
he is handsome and banks on it, he is
q cad and wounds every one he meets.
If he is wealthy and faunts it, he is
a weakling. If he has famous ances-
tors and brings it up in company, he
is a bore.
Because people possess what you
can not possess is no cause for envy,
but the habits of the naughty and the
proud beget disgust in the minds Of
all genuinely plain and honest folk.
Prone To Evil
Henry Morton Stanley, who eXplor-
ed the last unknown land on the
earth, says that people of all uncivi-
lized tribes and nations smile when
they meet you and volunteer aid if
you need it. Stanley ought to know,
and as he was not working for gain
nor glory, he spoke the truth.
1t has been written in books that
American Indians smiled too when
the exploration of this continent was
begun. They do not smile now and
it is in books that their sulen morose-
ness now, is the result of our en-
croachments.
Civilized people may become
''Prone to Evil" but the greatest ex-
plorer in all time, has testified that
aboriginal man is not.
Give Wires"
When that term is applied to men,
it means that they have energy, quick
and powerful action like charged
lighting wires.
Hon. Robert LaFollette, Hiram
Johnson, Ex-Attorney General
Daugherty and scores more men in
recent public life were called Give
wires" The term is not as popular
as it once was, owing to the mischief
they have wrought in their too new
and premateur ideas. The term has
never been applied to Burbank, Thos.
A. Edison, John Oliver, John D.
Rockefeller, Henry Ford and other
genuinely useful men.
A man or country is in more dan
ger going fast than going slow.
Side track the olive wires" and