Evening star., 1925-02-22

almost exactly alike, and have been
for years. Today one band plays
William Tell" and the other plays
Poet and Peasant" Tomorrow they
reverse the order. In the evening
paper recently I noted that "Mfgnon"
was to be played that night by both
bands and by three hotel orchestras.
And there is no relief; 1t is a world
of old things. And probably some
thing new would not be as agreeable
as the old. One of the bands lately
played a new piece called "The
Blue Kitten" and it was dreadful;
william Telr' would have been
more agreeable.
There should not be in America =
man who devotes his time wholly to
oratory. Actors and writing men are
content to remain mere entertainers;
we may patronize them, or let them
alone.
But orators endeavor to secure
power to punish enemies. They
organize to raise money, spread
propaganda, and disturb the people
by calling them out to attend con-
ventions and march in parades: they
demand new laws, with hordes of
officials to enforce them.
They demand wars, and that busy
workers enlist.
Business men engage in an enter
prise, and, if 1t is not popular, they
charge off the loss and engage in
something else.
Not so with successful orators and
statesmen, they never let up, and
nearly always they are mistaken.
Perhaps there has been in history
no more humiliating and destructive
period than that known as the
Crusades
One orator started that trouble;
trail of blood runs through hundreds
of years, and it began with a power
full speech
The people should not permit SOL
diers of fortune to WELD great power.
Resisting them has caused more loss
OF energy and treasure than war
itself.
W. j. Bryan is one of the most
amiable OF our orators. But is not
his opposition to evolution a relic
from the old inquisition?
Suppose Mr. Bryan had won.-
Would he not have done disagree
able things to his opponents, the
professors?
The average man doesn't want TO
ran IN love But the average man
does fall in love. does marry, and
does divide his income with his wife
and children. The average man does
all this because the average woman
wants him to. And, what is more, she
frequently does such a good Job OF
1T that he imagines it was his own
ldea. Nor does she permit him to
change his mind. (NoteI have
seen this in print many times. I have
| myself written it. The last time l saw
1t in print credit was given to Lucian
Corry.)
If a man hates women, 1t is be-
cause they do not care for him.
x x x
My closest neighbor happens to he
my brother, and a farmer 1 often
think his experiences are as unusual
as the experiences of bankers or
other persons engaged in more exact
ing occupations. A cat in his family
became i'll and dragged around in a
distressing way for a week. NV
| brother concluded the animal could
not get well and that it would be a
| humane act to end it's misery. One
| evening when he went out to milk
/ the cat followed him, as was its Gus
| tom. Having procured a dose of
! strychnine in town that day, he gave
it to the cat in warm milk, intending
! to bury the animal and tell the
| children their pet had disappeared.
| Next morning he observed the cat
was better. In a few days it was
entirely well and became fatter than
| it had been before.
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