The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-02-02

would hold me up to dirision of
my ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS me thru
the publicity of the press and
cruelty me upon the cross of pub
lie opinion. They would like to
write my pedigree upon my bare
back with an acetelyn torch, con-
denim me to spend the rest of my
natural life hoeing weeds under
the merciless rays of a dessert
I sun and then torture me a million
wears in the burning lake of fire
iof hell after that. Amt human ma
great progress? -.
| But, did anyone ever stop to
think what terrible things would
happen if we would all tell the
truth all the time? The newspa-
ipers would Immediately suspend,
Jour public officials would abscond,
Jour business houses would close,
Inine-tenths of all conversation
would cease and the oldest man in
THE world couldn't sell a radio, an
Automobile or even milk cow.
Who could get married or even
stay married? .@@",vE''-t '5 49,
/ Come on, you critics who were
$50 free to throw mud upon me.
How many of you can stand up
under the blazing search light of
pure. unadulterated truth one hun
Idred per cent? 9-
| I have likewise been accused of
being afraid of work. This is a
very unjust and uncalled for mis-
representation. Work and I are on
the very best terms. We never
Ibother each other and I sleep Just
as good when my friends and fam
lily are working as when they are
lresting. 1t has been pointed out
that work would be the panacea
flor all our ills and sure cure
for all our troubles. This is also
a mistake. Work never got any,
body any place. Pure. hard work
lis the most foolish and at the
same time, most expensive form
of outdoor sport that afflicts the
human race. 1t not only wastes
your time and wears out your
lcloths but it shortens your life
and dulls your intellect.
/ Show me one man or woman
who ever gained competence by
hard work alone and I'll show YOU
thousand who are dependent up
on others for the mere necessities
|of life.
The reason that the United
States stands today at the head of
all great nations is because she
mas relieved her people from the
drudgery of hard work.
Is the man who works hard for
an hour to get his wife UP these
cold frosty mornings to milk two
cows, entitled to more for their
produce than the man who milks
twenty cows with a power driven
machine? Is water any sweeter
or will it sustain life any longer
because it is carried from the riv-
er in pail instead of being pump.
ed and stored and brought into
the house through pipe?
is the man who spends twelve
hours spading up a small piece of
ground any better citizen than the
one who plows eight or twenty
acres with team or tractor? Get
this. You poor misguided individ-
uals who are prone to worship at
the Shrine of hard labor. it is NOT
what you do, but what you accom-
jplish that gets results! or. in the
WORDS OF the great Palouse philos-
opher. Tnefficiency is no crime.
but it produces the same results"
what this country needs to put
1t upon its financial feet is not
more hard workers as my critics
cdalm. but more people who do
not have to work but are willing
TO 1--we here to enjoy our wonder.
ful climate. our early springs. orr
year around roads, and lusious
fruits. and spend their money for
what would otherwise go to waste.
Does California spend any mon
ey advertising for Mexican peon IA,
Dor to come in? No, she passes laws
to keep them out and they all work
1.-THE poems. not the laws). but she
does spend millions to attract tour
lists and others who do not care TO
work. 49, "
Work will not even solve the
physical ailments of the valley.
know a man who owned a piece
OF land which he plowed and seed
ed three or four times last spring
and each time the top soil, and the
seed. blew away. The sand made
sn almost impossible barrier in
the road and also almost ruined
neighbors asparagus.
| Now allow me to correct the a.
bove. statement lest in my haste
commit another error and call
down upon my poor unprotected
head another deluge Of scathing
denunciation. did not now this
man, although he is near neigh
Dor. / thought I knew him until he
began to abuse me by spoken and
printed word. He did not own the
land but only had possession and
Ia small equity. BY the way, who
does own this land? The land
bank who has the mortgage? the
Improvement company who holds
the bonds? the Hudson Bay com
pany who claim to have discover
led it? the Indians who originally
had it and whose claims have new
Ter been paid. or has the state and
county a claim upon it, for unpaid
taxes?
| One more correction to my short
STORY and / am through. This man
lof whom I spoke. who 1 thought