Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-09
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. II. FELTON,

nv mothers side saddle, and without the
usual riding skirt l guess ! somewhat re-
sembled toad on a tussock" when my little
self was lifted up on saddle; land / never
saw any womanknd ride astraddle until |
was much over fifty. | wonder now how
women ever did get at it, because modesty
for females was always at premium in the
days of long ago.
CRAVING A KING
Y T was hardly possible to stfle my disgust
when [ read the daily paper and heard
~ how the populace became rabid that
the gates of the White House grounds had
to be closed to hold back the rushing wave
of men and women clamorous to get a look
at the King of England's Oldest son.
1t speaks very poorly for country calling
itself a Republic 1t betokens low order
of patriotic respect for their own country
It is pitiful to- consider the numbers that
ran wild and stood like poor dumbdriven
cattle just to cape at a boy that will some
day be King of England if he does not die
before his father.
What is this youth to us, that native-born
Americans should fall down and worship his
body and who only show him a big lot of
fools for him to look at?
In the Old Testament, when the populace
became tired of Samuel the provisional gov
ernor of the Hebrew race, and demanded for
themselves a King, the old prophet told
them in plain words what a King would do
to them, time enough being given. Because
Saul a likely young man, he attracted
attention and at first he perhaps as
guileless as the Prince of Wales. But We
know Sauls history. His position gave him
the bighead. He soon got too big for his
breeches. He evoluted into a tyrant. 1t
was natural evolution. 1t always happens
to shallow-pa politicians. We have had
experience with some in America
The King of England is likely saying to
himself: "Ah That sounds good. I would
like to annex these turbulent United States
to my dominion in Canada
And those admirers of the Prince of Wales
will sink themselves into the rut that made
cruel monarchs over on the Eastern Cont
nent. What is there in any foreign King
for the free citizens of the United States.
should crave themselves? The King of
England does not lead armies into battle
lines He drafts them and they can be de-
stroyed without remedy and he then pro-
ceeds to draft more soldiers and if they re-
fuse to go, he jail them. If they desert
he can have the last deserter shot at sun
rise, backed up against stone wall.
Haven't we in the United States had a
sufficient taste of draft, when 10000 Amer
lean boys were killed on the battlefields of
France? They were forced to meet German
troops, although German troops were like
manikins-ab absolutely driven like cattle to
the battle front and sacrificed the altar
Of modern Molock!
What does England represent to the
American people anyhow?
Our forefathers fled those foreign shores
to find a wilderness where they could serve
God as they pleased in peace and quiet, and
they risked warfare with red Indians and
were finally afflicted with rich Tories that
bent the knee to Kings and Worshipped a
mere man on a throne, just as the Hebrews
besought Samuel for a King because they
were plain fools for lack of sense, and pre-
ferred the pomp and state of palace gate.
What a story of bootlcks and poor craven
idiots has been carried back to Europe yes
terday! The freest government on our
planet is honeycombed with ignorant human
beings who are too silly to love their native
land and who choose to be doormats for
kings to wipe their feet upon. [ have not
been so disguised in long time. That boy
is good enough in his place and he can
travel here as we'll as in midland much
safer-but I wish somebody had the power
to spank the poor fools that were like silly
sheep at the White House.