The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-02-29
BY GEE SEE

He thinks himself above the code
That governs the lives of men;
And that he is so privileged
His actions are free from sin.
He stabs a brother in the back
With no regard for the ties
That bind them in a common
cause
Against trickery and lies.
"How does he get away with it."
Is the question you may ask;
You wonder they don't show him
up
Tear off his hypocrite's mask.
That will come sooner or later
They'll find he has "feet of clay"
Tho he's a prominent citizen"
They'll show him up some day!
%&#*#%
Feet of clay" became an ex-
preston when a race of idol wor-
shippers discovered to their disap-
pointment that their god had feet
moulded from common mud, instead
of being solid gold as they believed.
#+#s*%
"You can fool all the people some
of the time, and some of the people
all of the time, but you can't fool
ALL the people ALL the time"
**+**+
And sooner or later the crook
with a plastered smile and rot
ten heart is going to get knocked
for Tapping scare-crow.
Anderson, the Anti-Saloon Logger,
got term in prison.
s*s%*s
And he fooled the people for a
long time.
McAdoodle got can tied to his
presidential aspirations. Gwen if he
did get away with $150,000 iron men
in the meantime.)
s*&***
Now it develops that Senator
| Walsh, Democrat, who is piously
posing as reformer in prosecut-
ing the oil investigation, was the
one who fostered the bill providing
for oil leases by the government.
| And Ex-Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, Democrat, was the author
of the bill.
Anderson has "clay dogs" Me
Adoodle developed muddy hoofs;
Walsh is found hiding earthly kick
ers of mud formation; Daniels is
walking in the lions den with clay
| feet.
Have you got frogs legs?" ask
ed the man in the restaurant when
the waitress came around. "No" she
replied Indignantly, my feet hurt.
That's the reason | walk that way"
*s%*&&
Every nation, state, county, city,
hamlet, church, club and lodge has
its idols with clay feet.
&*$&**
Watch them when they walk
you'll see them totter sooner or
later. Frogs legs or clay feet,
they're bound to show.
*s%%%.
! How dare you copy my Sermon"
stormed the eminent divine as the
beginner in the ministry descended
from the pulpit after his first eff
fort. The young minister stammer-
ed, 81 didn't know it was your SER
mon" "You didn't know it," almost
screamed the eminent divine. land
Just preached it two months ago.
with the papers quoting it at great
length" Again the young minister
stammered, "Why sir, copied it
from an old book of sermons that
was printed hundred years ago"
Clay feet show themselves in var
ious and sundry ways. The minis
ter who breaches from the text,
THE tongue is fire, world of
iniquity,' and has been guilty of
hbeling his neighbors. need not be
surprised if his sermon has no eff
feet.
Clay feet will show thru leather
of any thickness. A man may hide
behind the title of "The Elevated
Great Mogul of The Dei6ed Sahibs
of the Universe but if he run
down. his brethren, the concrete
bunions ON his clay feet will stick
thru his shoes; and if he stab
brother in the back, he will soon
be run down at the heels,
ss*&&~
Nature employs a process of elm
nation that weeds out the weak
sisters and human nature must
do the same thing,
.s~sss
Atlantic City high school students
are now permitted to dance in the
gymnasium from noon until i.25
each day, Ito assist them to rid
themselves of the nervous tension
caused by mid-year examinations"
Modern education is great
thingl If they can't find any brains
in the head, they look for it in the
feet.
s*ssss
BRING YOUR MUSIC WITH YOU
A New York dancing school sd.