The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-28
Howe About:
Byron
Prohibition
Philanthropy
By ED HOWE

| I SHALL not further advertise It by
giving title, publisher or author, but
send out warning that lately another
mischievous book has appeared.
Every reader must have noted that
certain men in history are charged
| with being specially capable lady kill
ers. Their victims in few cases num-
Der hundreds; in many scores or
| dozens.
This author selects sixteen of the
more notable of the lady killers, and
attempts to prove that in every case
the men were more victims than con-
| querors. There is well-known line
that Byron once awoke and found
himself famous better known line
announces he awoke another morning.
and found himself Infamous. Women
largely assisted In giving Byron this
last reputation, and it has outlasted
| the first.
| My observation has been that both
| parties to a love affair are about
equally guilty and equally suffer In
every fight there is a cauliflower ear
for both participants; Blue Beard,
Byron, Casanova, Cellini, no one goes
about beating up either men or wom-
en- without punishment.
Every one must be frequently
amazed at the reckless statements
men make when arguing their side
of question.
One of the most common and amaz-
ing of such statements is that no at
tempt has ever been made to enforce
the prohibitory law; that the law has
never had chance. Every prohibit
zionist makes this claim daily.
Yet official records show that three
and half billion dollars in money
alone have been spent in special eff
forts to enforce the law, in addition
to the loss of more than eighteen bill
lions in revenue formerly collected
from the sale of liquor. There are so
many special prohibition agents sneak
ing about even now after the law has
been practically nullified. that two
squads recently met, and, mstaking.
each other for rum fiends, killed and
wounded several.
/ do not know what has got into
people, unless it is that deviltry which
once got into a famous lot of swine,
and caused the crazy animals to rush
to high precipiee, and jump off.
When I first began seriously con-
sidering the serious facts of life. that
l might reasonably understand and
apply them, 1 recall being shocked on
encountering statement that all men
are liars; little later / read that all
men are also scoundrels. Surely, I
thought. few must have discovered
that it is best to tell the truth, to be
honest men. But, alas such state
ments do not shock me, or anyone,
now.
thirty years has been burden on
sons, daughters and other kin. She
has nothing, does nothing, has never
done anything of consequence, and is
an object of charity, but what do You
suppose her speciality is?
Curiously enough, it is constant
weeping because her already heavily
burdened relatives do not give her
wealth with which to do good. In her
idleness she hears the groans of the
world, and wishes to bring more joy
into it.
Don't laugh too much at this foolish
old woman; all of us wish fame as
fhn fox1 - -
acquired with money collected from
others.
1t is the universal passion.
The sprightly Sydney Smith is
quoted as saying it is the duty of
every man to show his wife Paris, but
far more women wish to do missionary
work than care to visit Paris; and
more men long to engage in politics
than long to show their wives the art
and apaches of the French.
Many are saying impressively no
one understands Bernard Shaw.
The truth is Shaw is easily nnder-
stood; he is lucky dog who has blum
dered into the discovery that it is east
er and more profitable to tell the truth
than to be hypocrite and liar
/ have read summary of Shaw's
speech In New York, and of most he
has written. He charges Americans
with no folly we have not charged
against ourselves; books and maya
zines have for years been full of the
belated warnings Shaw Is now attract
ing attention with. Shaw knows moth
ing millions Of Americans have not
long known; he. attracts great audi
ences only because it is great novelty
for man to tell the truth in public.
In travelling there are many stretch
es Of plain and easy road, but occa-
sionally every road forks. and you
must use your head, since one road is
right, and the other wrong. Il
will only say as to this emergency that
commonly the right road is as plainly
marked as the wrong one. have trav-
eled far and long, but never yet have