The Republican., 1924-11-13
PERT, PITHY AND
PUNGEANT PARAGRAPHS
By COL T. c. POWNAJI
Texas,

Sheridan said hell was a better
place to live than Texas. Wonder
what he'd say now with woman as
governor? The time was when a man
had to prove that his grandfather
voted for "Old Hickory" before he
got an Office. Now the State is pro-
claimed the most progressive of them
all. Women were not anxious for
suffrage, but they have it, and they
are certainly entitled to one governor
in forty-eight States.
Mr. La Toilette.
Wisconsin is a great State and has
the most heterogeneous population of
any State. That was the senator's
stock in trade. He has made one big
splurge and has dropped into innoc-
uous desuetude, like the dull thud of
load of garbage on the dump. He
is single track political adventurer
and can no more understand the
ideals of Lincoln and Coolidge than
he can the brands on a Texas pony.
His following is more noisy than it is
numerous.
The Double Standard.
The double standard for money has
been regarded vital in government,
but the double standard of morals for
men and women is more vital Men
go their way in immortality and main
tain their power and standing. Soci-
ETY. gives a thief chance to reform,
gives a forger a chance to live down
his crime. Society takes them back,
but the woman who stumbles is
plunged into degradation and despair
on the first offense. The world has
nothing but brutal scorn and con-
tempt for her, but our civilization will
not let her come back even in sack
cloth. There is nobody now to rem
der the most beautiful verdict ever
handed down; 'Go and sin no more"
1t Is TO Laugh.
1t is amusing to see candidates do !
ing skirt dance for the effect upon
the ignorant, thoughtjass and venal |
voter Every four years the country
is headed for Gehenna, we are told |
Twenty years ago free silver was the |
only remedy. Now low tariff or
government ownership" must be-
This country don't need a thing ex-
cept for the people to go out back of |
the barn and think.
Rises In The East.
The teacher wrote sentences for us
to copy when I was boy One copy"
was, "The sun rises in the east and |
sets in the west" He was supposed |
to know, but the fact is that the sun
does not rise at all. It does not go |
around the earth. The earth goes
around it, and the sun this morning
did not rise" as we say, where it did
yesterday morning. It requires 365
days for the earth to go around the
sun. The unerring compass proves
this. The earth is not where it was
an hour ago, but the sun is, for prac
tical purposes.
Heat.
"The sun is hot" is a common say
ing. This is, we mean its rays are
not, but if its rays are hot here what
are they at the start, millions of miles
away? The rays make the rebound
and friction and heat result. When
the temperature here is 80 degrees in
the shade and we go to mountain
top 1000 feet nearer the sun, we find
the temperature but so degrees. We
go toward the fire to get warm, but
we go toward the sun to get cool.
The Frank.
That's privilege that should be
barred. Tons, carloads and train loads
of political buncombs, in pamphlets
giving speeches that were not made,
written by smooth ex-office holders or
clerks. The frank costs our govern
ment more than the salaries of all the
law makers. 1t is immoral.
Silence.
The Bryans, Wheelers, Borahs and
other takers are criticised for talk
ing. The President was taunted be-
cause he refused to talk. He has |
demonstrated that those who make |
the least noise do the most work. If |
an engine expends too much steam on
the whistle it does not have enough |
left to turn the wheels,