The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-10-16
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From The River OF Life
BY E. p CoNWELL

on the envelope and on the mes
sage is a word with which | am
particularly conversant though l
strongly suspect that it was in
serted as joke. 1t was the body
of the message that had me stump
ed. poisson D'avril' what could
that mean?
There happens to be young
man up the street who is the only
member off the American Legion
who admits that he had a girl, a
French girl, when he was across
the water II years ago. All the rest
of them insist Ito their wives)
that when they were over there
they spent all of their time just
fighting coolies and Huns and
lovin' the girls they left behind
them, which of course, means
their present mates. This friend of
mine has often related to me how
ne used to get permission, A. w.
.. l.. he called it, from the colonel
or General Pershing or somebody
to go and see his girl in Paris.
"And say boy, she was some baby,
a real DOLL" he would say, "she
taught me to speak French like
a native. What pink cheeks and
what beautiful hair she had. And
such lips and such dark eyes. Her
beauty was indeed disturbing.
When she laid down barrage with
those eyes, believe me, boy, | sun
rendered" That's the way he raves
about her to this day, but of CO.
urse, not to his wife.
sought him out to have him
translate my message and right
here | wish to pay glowing tri-
butte to the fair maiden of Paris
myself. She must have been a
teacher, real teacher of the FIR
ench language. He but glanced at
the message and said, poisson
D'avril means April Fool in the
American language. remember
when | was in Paris A. w. 0. j..
on April Fools day, 1918, my girl
and | were strolling along the
Rue"
walked away for | felt that
had been outraged and insulted by
bunch of frog eaters that to this
good hour have failed, neglected
and refused to pay back to us the
millions we loaned them to carry
on their war Then | got to think
ing it over and a great light dawn
ed. After all, those learned sages
that make up the French Academy
had given the right solution to
the problem, "April Fool" Why,
now | saw it all. They simply
meant to say in terse language
that the people of Carbon County
haven't cold feet that was all.
And, on second thought, why
should they have cold feet? Our
pea, beet and bean crops were new
err better. Our potato and wheat
crops were almost normal. Our
fruit crop was never better. Times
appear little tough now it's true
and prices of farm products are
too low. There could be less unem-
pIoyment than there is but it does
MT do anyone any good to get cold
feet or feel blue. There's rain
bow in the sky. We are no worse
off than our neighbors are. Con-
ditions will improve, they must
improve, regardless of the propa-
ganda spread about during pol
itical campaign.
So. let's make the best of it. Let
us remember that no problem has
ever presented itself that the good
sense of the American people has
failed to solve. Let US look to the
future with confidence and with
hope.
AS sons of and people imbued
| with the spirit OF the pioneers we
must not get cold feet. Our fathers
would not have it so. They founded
no paralytic government incapable
Of the simplest acts of admins
tration. They planted no whining
sluggard people, passive while dull
times confronted them. They estab-
lished no reactionary nation. They
unfurled no retreating flag.
Therefore, let us be optimists
and remember that in future,
Our fields will be as fertile,
And our mountains just as high,
There'll be nothing blue about US
Save the blue that tints the sky.
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