The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-11-03

beverly I1lllS-tA1l KNOW IS just
what read in papers or what run
into as I prowl like a coyote. trot-
ting along looking back over my
shoulders, to see whats going on
behind me. You know Ed Borein,
the great Cowboy etcher of Santa
Barbara, Cal. Ed makes the best
western etching of anybody. He is
a real cowpuncher, and knows the
California "Buckaroo" and the old
Mexico "Vanquero" better than any
artist living. He has been in Mex
leo a lot, and in California a lot
more. Old Ed swings pretty
mean loop himself and goes to all
the calf brandings around Santa
Barbara.
But what started me on all this
was telling about what Ed told me.
He said an Indian told him that the
reason a White man always got lost
and an Indian dident was because
an Indian always looked back after
he passed anything so he got view
of it from both sides. You see the
White man just figures that all
sides are the same. That's like a
dumb guy with an argument, he
don't think there can be any other
side only his. That's what you call
Politicians.
So lately I been trying to look
back over my shoulder like a Wolf,
and an Indian. I just been max
ing a trip down through Mexico,
Central and South America, and
even in an aeroplane, would look
back. (Of course it was mostly
looking back at the last place that
looked like we could land if the en-
CINE stopped). But did do quite
bit of looking back.
Now for instance I looked back
at Hollywood as I left. Now you
would be surprised at Hollywood if
you look at it from both sides. AS
you come up to it and its people,
you see the movie side, all the paint
and glitter, and make up, and make
believe houses, but as you look back
at it, why lot of those houses
have backs to EN-, and people live
in EN-, and they don't have any
make up, and they eat and sleep
and fret and worry about work, and
about their children, and every
thing just like any other place. But
you got to look back to see it. Yes
sir, there is a lot of pleasure in
looking back, and peeping around
and trying to see the other fellows
angle. Every guy has an angle"
on living, and on life, and on ev-
erything. Take the election. Now
one side couldent or wouldent want
to know really what the other side
could do or really thought they
could do. Both sides just spent the
whole summer hunting up things to
cuss the other side on. That the
other side might be right in lot
of things never entered their head,
in fact they wouldent let it enter.
A politician is not as narrow mind
ed as he forces himself to be. No
body is going to spoil the country
but the people. No one man can
do it, and all the people are not
going to do it, so it's going to run
in spite of all the mistakes that
can happen to it.
Sure everybody hasent got as
much, but everybody don't need as
much. Flying along over Mexico,
see all the little adobe huts, rails
ing a little patch of Free Hollie
Beans" a little patch of corn to
mash up some meal into and make
some "Tortillas" biscuits to YOU'D.
Now at first you will say, what in
the world kind of an existence Is
that" Well now lets look back over
the shoulder and see if we can't
see a little more than just the hut,
and the Mexican family sitting in
the sun. In the first place you
never hear of one jumping out of
a window when General Motors
drops ten points. What the Japs
do to Manchuria is no more of his
business than it is ours. Only he
don't worry about it. A "burro" in
lope is as fast as he ever went,
and he thinks that's fast. A pas
senger aeroplane at (mayby) 40
is as fast most of us ever went and
we think that's fast. But not to
Doolittle or Hawkes.. You see ev-
erything is by comparison. The old
Mexican sleeps at night. Nothing
bothers him except maby a flea, but
he can scratch him off. He knows
how to reach him, but we don't
know how to reach overproduction,
unemployment, second mortgages,
poor movies, and thousand and
one things that bite us and keep us
awake at nights.
No sir the world has got a mill
lion millionaires that would give a
million apiece to the old Mexican
to have nothing bothering them but