Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-11-06
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thing cannot, the weather. So when
1t SHOWS or blows, or any other me-
neurological mix-up comes your way
inst keep your troubles to yourself
Naturally, everybody else is getting
the same dose and many OF them
have far less fuel and lighter weight
underwear. If the grunts and GROWS
during the past few days OF bad
weather could have been corralled
and let loose in one big growi, IL
would have sounded like the fore
runner of doom Weather is not an
individual matter We all have
share in it, and always remember
that YOU were not picked out by the
elements as the victim OF their
wrath. When it rains put up your
umbrella, or somebody else's, and go
smilingly on. 1t may be that the
other fellow has no umbrella.
1t admits of little argument that
man is conceited just in proper
ition to his lack of real sense. Passed
a citizen on the street the other day
who at a self-appraisement value is
the biggest thing between Stoney
Creek and the Soudan. He has an
air of Importance suggesting the re-
incarnation of Napoleon Bonaparte,
Socrates and julius Caesar, all rolled
into one. To him the world consists
of the proletariat and himself, and
how his six and a quarter hat COW
ers his massive" brain is wonder
Maybe he puts it on with a shoe
horn. Every community has one or
more of these asinine automatons
who feel that the world tips when
they step the least bit over the CEN
ter of gravity. This is one kind.
The other kind were at Shenandoah
Caverns the other day. The biggest,
brainiest men in the railroad world.
Controlling a billion dollars and
holding in the hollows of their hands
the destinies of hundreds of thou
sands of employees. They were just
folks. Unaffected, unassuming and
real men. No conceit, no air of SUI
periority, but just men. And, so, it
goes.
Just suppose that you were credit
ably assured that within five years
your property holdings would be de-
preciated SO per cent. Suppose,
again, that the prophesy of financial
disaster was predicated on certain
facts which inevitably led to results
just as certain. Then, suppose that
you could avoid the depreciation by
small investment. Wouldn't you
hop to it? A thousand socks would
come out of their hiding places and
part of the hoard which you are
laying by for the undertaken and
the, oftimes, unworthy, would be
freely given to sidetrack the disaster
Take the diverse. Suppose it was
made plain to you that by loosening
up the pursestrings, your holdings
would be immeasurably increased;
that you would aid in inaugurating
an era of prosperity for you and your
section far beyond your dreams Sup
pose, again, that the proofs based on
statistics, were incontrovertible and
unquestionable. What would you do?
No; what are you doing? Well, this
is the park proposition in a nutshell
1t is the biggest thing ever in the
grasp Of Virginia, and especially in
the Shenandoah Valley
They buried Ash Scott Wednesday.
He was a familiar figure on the
streets of Woodstock, with his Grip
pied body a distorted hull for the
soul which left it on Sunday. A crea-
ture of environment and circum-
stances, he had faults which marked
him for the anathemas of those who
profess allegiance to Him who stay
| ed the venom of the mob with the
admonition that he who was with
out sin should cast the first stone.
The record is, that not a pebble was
thrown. Men and women at heart,
and in secret practice, just as guilty
of smashing the decalogue and Just
as blind to the precepts of the Ser
mon on the Mount passed him by
and, like the Pharisees of old, thank
ed God that they were not like him.
Some probably were seeking funds
to send silk socks to the benighted
heather in Samoa, and others were
on their way to cloak their hypocrisy
at the altar rail, but none of them
had time to stop on the highway and
say word of hope to Ash Scott.
And he is just a type. There are
many like him. Many who might
be lifted and helped if the same. char
itableness of spirit was shown in
shenandoah County as is evidenced
when an appeal is made for choco-
late drops for some cannibal chief
tain in darkest Africa. The same
old question, Am I my brothers
Keeper" However, Ash will be
judged in the court in which he now
pleads, and rest assured it will be