The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-05-19
Howe About:
Watching Out
The Alarm Bell
The Youth Movement
BY ED HOWE

thing, but Silerius expresses the be-
| lief In his memoirs that it is more
stable than the love grown children
show parents
Silerius mentions with approval and
thankfulness that his third wife once
said to him that the blunt regularity
with which he was called on daily for
money with which to pay household
expenses, and the hard way in which
| he was compelled to earn all his
money. excited her pity, and caused
her to resolve to be more frugal in her
| expenses.
Silerius adds a note (page SO, End
| voL), that none of his grown children
ever said an equally agreeable thing
| to him.
dogs. The trouble seems to be he
didn't watch out on his way up.
In climbing, one must be constantly
careful: see to it that every round
above is as sound as those below
which carried him safely.
And such care is always easier than
fall.
1 do not believe Samuel insult was
rogue but became careless as he
climbed, and developed dangerous con-
ceit.
] cannot understand how any man.
intelligent enough to fully realize what
a man necessarily is, can become con-
ceited.
In youth and age only natural things
have impressed me.
And natural things have impressed
me only because of the COVER behind
them to force my acceptance
AS young man / was often
ashamed because of youthful incom-
petence and judgment; because those
older daily demonstrated more capa-
bility as result of longer experience.
In learning my trade never doubted
the foreman's greater ability, and ac-
copied his instructions as ! accepted
the suggestions Of the older men in
the same shop.
I have never been able to under
stand the Confidence of Youth Of
which so much is heard.
The other day / met an old fellow
who had long lived luxuriously. He
seemed ''about all in," as the saying
is, and told me Of his ills. I said the
only remedy I had ever found was
taking care Of myself. His reply i'm
pressed me.
eyes," he said, II know about that,
but did not begin early enough"
send out another general alarm to
be lost in the magnificent errors Of
children until something serious hap
pens.
One should begin taking care of him
self before the first alarm, which comes
long before forty or fifty. The alarm
bell began ringing very early in my
life; I believe it does in the lives of
most men, and beg them to pay attep,
ton earlier.
We frequently hear EXPLANATIONS as
to the Most Amazing Thing in the
World. I think it is the dullness, in
efficiency, carelessness and dishonesty
of adults who are permitted to run at
large, bear children and vote, although
they refuse to learn the simplest les
sons we birch children for not prac-
ticing.
Men who are careless, not honest,
and do not pay their debts, have bad
Judgment in other respects; 1t has
been discovered that one-fourth of all
automobile drivers having collisions
are listed as dead beats in their COM
munities.
AS moving an incident in life as
have ever heard is this: A young girl
of average good family in my town
married at seventeen, and had five
children in seven years. One day she
disappeared and has never been heard
from since, except a letter she wrote
her mother from a distant town, which
said she couldn't stand the burden of
being married. She found no fault
with her husband saying he was as
may be sure" she added, "there is not
another man in the case; the man-lack
in my life has been completely salts
fed"
One of my greatest humiliations is
the manner in which politicians make
a fool of me; my helplessness in pro-
tecting myself from the harm they
constantly do me. frequently work
myself into a frenzy about it, and
splutter to others who are also angry,
and hurt, but we get no relief out of
our exchange of indignation.
Some one excited us long ago by de-
claring we were not being treated
right. The people were never
promised, by any real authority, any
thing they are not getting.
lately tried to read book about
AhvsSinia the author having Travelled