Evening star., 1925-01-25
Howe About
Praising the Ladies; Being Too Good;
Able and Mac.
BY E. ". HOWE,
~Thc Sage of Potato Hill"

The old trail has become a high
way of concrete:
On one side Of it is a steam rail-
road;
On the other side street railway;
| And above an airplane.
| And the new men, working under
| new conditions charge only what the
traffic Will bear, as they have a
right to.
There is no other honesty.
In your traffic with customers,
| neighbors, acQuaintances members
! of your family, buyers, sellers you
| are entitled to a fair profit;
And give a profit as cheerfully as
you take.
A dramatic critic has just assailed
| the people because one Fritz Leiber
| is neglected in Macbeth" while
| "Abies Irish Rose" Is doing well.
Where did this critic get the notion
that he has been appointed to tell
| the people what they should like and
dislike In plays?
1 have seen a good many of Shake
| speare's plays, by the best actors. If
l do not greatly care for them and
do wish to see "Abie's Irish Rose"
because have heard much of IL and
have curiosity to see what it is
| like, 1t is amazing impudence for a
| dramatic critic to say 1 am dull, un-
| apprec1ative Of the best things and
| one of the Herd, or Rabble.
Let Fritz Leiber take his chances
! with Macbeth" but If the people do
| not like him in the role he should
swallow his medicine like a man, and
/ not induce his friend of the dramatic
| columns to whine.
Such whining will only cause the
| people to dislike Fritz Leiber and
| Shakespeare more and give "Abie's
| irish Rose" further free advertising
1t possibly does not deserve.
x x x x
| Wise thing found among nv letters.
! L notice that the Standard Oil Co.
has for department heads unob-
trusive, quiet men: good and faith
| rul servants; the Standard COMPANY
| does not want Live Wires among its
employees" Cut this out and show it
to those Of your acquaintance de-
| voting too much time to the Live
! Wire stunt. The Live Wire specialist
| Is usually in training for politics,
and there is some hope that within
~ or ~ years the political profess
! sion will be prohibited by law. as is
saloon keeping.
In Kansas 25 failed banks have re-
| sumed business lately, and nine
olHeTS are preparing to resume. The
farmers have big crops, prices are
high, and are able to pay their neg
lected obligations. Already the farm
ers are being urged to buy liberallv.
and make times better" On the con-
trary, they should put their affairs
| IN better order for another rainy day.
| x
A man in New York offers to send
me, Tor dollar, a book outlining a
daily course of reading.
1 wouldn't have the book if he
should offer to give 1t TO me; nothing
would induce me to adopt a daily
course in reading; such a task would
be silly bore.
| The proper way to read is to browse
| In Whatever comes your way easily
and naturally. In course of time a.
man who adopts this haphazard plan
viii pick up all the literary material
he capable of digesting
| The book for which I am asked to
pay dollar would probably recon-
mend reading l wouldn't care for.
and could not understand. Every man
has different taste. Some books |
cannot understand, and I properly
avoid these. Some books recommend
subjects as important that are fool
ish to me. These I should also avoid.
and do. More than three-Quarters of
what we call literature is foolish
the other quarter is valuable, and
every man must acquire 1t in his own
way.
| (Convrioht Ioo5