The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18
Howe About:
Welfare Workers
Baseball
Fundamental Truths
Rv ED HOWE
By ED HOWE

earliest book and public speaker
began with plea for the poor, and
the clamor has grown ever since, but
the poor have not been relieved. We'll
fare workers seem to prefer to keep
the poor. as exhibits when they inaugu-
rate new drive, as teachers exhibit
children when school directors are be-
ing appealed to for another appropria-
ton. The present worldwide poverty
is disgraceful; had we handled our,
selves with the intelligence and vigor
we are capable of. have actually shown
in other ways poverty would not exist
o. o. Mcintyre says baseball is slow
ly passing out, and must inevitably dis
appear. hope so; baseball has be-
come one Of the greatest American
bores. The first ambition Of an Ameri-
can youth should be to become good
provider for a family, safe and re-
spectacle man in his community; to
occupy a good job so capably he Is
more apt to be promoted than dis
charged. It is bad for young man
when his greatest ambition is to be-
come sandlot rowdy called Spec Hit
emhard or Red Bringemin.
There are millions of thinkers at
present, and millions in the past have
left records of their thoughts, yet few
have ever recognized fundamental
truths that should occur to almost any
one One of such truths generally
missed is that all men have equal
rights in the world You may say this
right has been abundantly granted.
1t hasn't: no one grants rights except
to the poor. Have the rich not been
denied their rights from the begin
ming? And are we not lately agreed
in denying the rights of the middle
class? You may say again am mis-
taken, but in this case I am not: no
one is freely and generally granted
human rights except the poor man.
who will not take advantage Of them.
In the few cases where writers have
sound sense, they will not be under
stood unless extremely careful in ex-
pressing it. There is so much going
on people will not bother long with
paragraph or page not simply written
and easily understood. Among the
small number of men whose names at
tract my attention on encountering
them in print is Benjamin DeCasseres.
do not know who he is; only that he
seems to be struggling to make liv-
ing as writer, has good deal Of real
genius, and writes too much about the
old days of heavy drinking and bar
tenders.
Lately he had two pages Of para
graphs in magazine, and was able
to understand only four Of them:
1. The honest man is one whom the
world both respects and plumbers;
2. Belief of any kind is impossible
without some degree of intolerance;
g. Whatever exists aspires to tell
petty lie about itself;
4 There is kind Of sweetness Of
character that is extremely disagree
able. Il have changed the last para
graph somewhat, as DeCasseres uses
many Objectionable words in his writ
ings, mistakenly believing they add
strength).
Young people should think about old
age earlier than they generally do.
Heedlessness, carelessness between fif-
teen and thirty result in many unnec-
essary troubles from thirty on.
The pleas of parents to children to
behave is the one bit of human wis
dom on which all men of all ages have
agreed. The Cretans, the Babylonians,
the Greeks. the Romans, left the same
story: The better you behave, the
better you will get along. It is the one
Bible all men have haltingly accepted.
I beg adults as well as young people
to find the True Church early, and re-
main in it, in spite of frequent trans
gressions.,
Dog story for O. o. Mcintyre: AS
nice girl of nineteen as know owns
a pup seven months old; and there
never was more useless, troublesome,
lovable, impudent, natural or anus
ing nuisance. Being given bone, and
unable to get outside to properly bury
It, he hid it in the bed of his mistress,
and awoke her in the middle of the
night vigorously digging 1t up. An
other (and Mr. Mcintyre will miss
this, unless he is CAREFUL A woman
owns bulldog very smart, good-na-
tured and appreciative. but, alas, he is
getting old. He usually sleeps on the
floor in the bedroom of his rather
elderly mistress. One morning, when
she awoke, the dog was sound asleep,
and his mistress addressed him affec-
tionately. AS he paid no attention, she
then declared he no longer loved her.
and threatened tears, etc. Finally the
old dog. actually disposed to polite
ness, and really loving his mistress.
could no longer avoid paying attention
to the proprieties, so he very slowly
began to yawn, to stretch. (This is
the point Of the story: his slow, DELHI