The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-26
Howe About:
Forgiveness
Welded Happiness
Suspicious Characters
By ED HOWE

sonable with me am not able to for
give them; cannot again trust or as
sociate with them.
have adopted this policy as the
easiest and best way. If / had oppor-
tunity to punish them, I should not
do so. 1 do not talk about them, or
think of them when / can help it.
believe in all decency, but this is
the best I can do with my enemies.
Amy suggestion that i love them is
plainly silly to me; cannot so much
as forgive them. The best can do is
to let them alone.
In 1916 a Frenchman made an esti-
mate as to happiness of husbands and
wives in England. Out of every hum
dred thousand population, he conclud-
ed, only thirteen of the married were
fairly happy. OF those passing for
happy, he estimated the number at
1926 per 100000. OF those living In
open hostility, he found 17,345; 1929
of the secretly discontinued, and IS, 406
of the materially Indifferent. Nearly
5000 ran away or were divorced dur
ing the year. Conditions are
better in 1882 than in 1916. In my sec
ton there is a city of 100000. do not
believe only 65 married persons In it
are only fairly happy. In my own
town there are 5000 souls. Accord
ing to this estimate, we have some
thing like one and half married per-
sons who are fairly happy. 1 am GER
tain we can do better than that. q.
Here is more criticism Of marriage far
beyond reason or fact.
/ know man who married a second
time. Within day or two his wife
began regulating him. "Now looky
here, Alice" he said, 1--WE might as well
understand each other. I have recent
ly secured, at great expense, trouble
and humiliation, divorce from q wom-
an who nagged me. specially dislike
nagging; regard 1t as an insult, and
1t specially humiliates and angers me.
If you cannot resist the temptation, let
us part now, that / may avoid the life
of shame from which I lately fed"
Every criminal is under suspicion In
his community before he engages In
crime Every man who will be arrest
ed next week is labeled as a proba-
bility for arrest this week. People
| wonder how he makes living; his
| habits are not the normal habits OF
the steady men of the community.
We must tighten up on suspicious
characters who have no visible means
of support. OF my acquaintance !
can make an accurate list Of those II
able to be arrested; so can you. The
cost of crime to the worthy majority
Is enormous and burdensome. / see
men on the streets every day who
should be promptly arrested as va
grants, as a precautionary measure
they violate the law as loafers, dead
beats and Adventures.
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! Occasionally a written sentence 10
so wise and true as to be worthy Of q
place in the permanent philosophy of
every fairly intelligent and honest man.
I know Of no American who may be
credited with greater number of
such rare exhibitions than Abraham
Lincoln. And the sentences admire
were cast in almost perfect form
nothing can be taken from them
nothing added, without harm. Yet
Lincoln was not a professional writer.
He almost never went to school; of
young men of today not one In hun
.dred had as poor start as Lincoln.
OF all Americans of large equipment
/ regard Ralph Waldo Emerson as per-
haps the ablest writer. Lacking EN-
erson's enormous technical education,
Lincoln was timid, and wrote sparing.
ly. can point out many specimens
of folly in Emerson's writing; none In
| Lincoln's he intended for the public.
Some Of his private love letters were
foolish, but these were intended for
the fire. H..
And no one should be criticized for
folly In love. - ~
Before the gates Of excellence"
wrote Hesoid, 'the high gods have
placed Sweat. Long is the road there
to, and rough and steep at the first
but when the height is achieved, then
there is ease, though grieyously hard
in the earning" '-.~
! Probably seven out of ten people
have grumbled about the moving pic
lures and thought they could write
better plays, but they have not done
SO. The mechanics Of the pic.
ture theaters have been improved until
they are little short Of marvellous, but
authors and producers show less Inn
provement. (Science always does bet.
| ter than the philosophers or intellec.
tuals who claim to know more than
| mechanfcs).
Great men are largely those who
have managed to do a good deal OF
work at odd times while greatly both.
cred with love affairs. .-.:-va.
Ibsen had bad start: at eighteen
he had a serious affair with hired