The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-10-18

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rica's heart when the
grabbing was good; wv" y SoDD
nor Japan, with her teeth set in China's
torn TANKS. Nor yet America, with
long centuries behind her of infamous
mistreatment for our own Indians.
Out of all history, you'll find but
one world-conqueror who came with
clean hands-and those hands the SOL
diers pierced with iron spikes as they
nailed the NaZarene to the cross.
Arkansas Athletes
IF THEY craved to get on the front
L page, the Italians made a grave mis-
take by starting a war when there's a
World series on-especially one where
you find two opposing star pitchers
from the same great state. What scoun-
drel was it said the chief products of
Arkansas were Democrats and cham
pion hog-callers?
And why shouldn't that Warneke boy
be able to throw straight and move
fast? Where he comes from, when the
family's out of meat one of the young
sters runs down buck rabbit or slips
out before breakfast with a pocketful
of rocks and comes home with a mess
of squirrels. If they'd only let him
take off his shoes, he could move
around that infield even faster.
Also, it "comes natchell," as they
say in his country and mine, to nurse
one quid in the right cheek all after
noon. was sixteen years old before
/ knew there was any other salad
course except chewing tobacco or that
oysters didn't grow in a can.
Pestered Presidents
DROBABLY California was no worse
than any other section, but I'll bet
Mr.. Roosevelt uttered silent cheer
when he pulled out on commodious
and uncrowded ocean with only the
sea lions to listen to, instead of the
spouting orators of America.
We elect man to the highest office
and the toughest job on earth-and
then handshake him and flag-wave him
and Speech-make him to death. He
goes forth to see how fares the coun-
try and can't see the country for the
reception committees. He has private
car to travel in and spends his time
on the back platform. He goes back
home to do his work and all the WIS.,
iting firemep in the land come to be
photographed with him on the White
House lawn. (NOTE-The exhausted
gentleman crouched in the middle is
him.
A President of the United States has
no more privacy than "a President
of the United States. Fooled you gold
fish fanciers that time, didn't 1?
It's as though we hired the eXclu-;
sive services of Michelangelo and then
sent him out to take orders for en-
larged crayon portraits.
Kentucky Elections
THEY had a primary election in
i Kentucky not long ago, and we,
didn't know the results until fully "a
hours afterward because they've got
a law down there against counting the.
vote for at least one day after the,
polls close, then allowing time to no
tify the families of deceased and the
coroners.
AS native son, I'll never forget
the thrill l had in 1882 when all the.
rest of the country had reported-a
party named Hoover also was running
that year-and then the first scatter
ing returns came in from Kentucky
seven dead and eighteen wounded.
But I'm afraid the old state is Slip
ping. There were only $50 National
Guardsmen on duty for this last cleo
ton in Harlan county, where the
mountain boys still have boyish way
of voting with Winchester rifles. And
/ can remember when a Republican
governor called out the entire military
force of the commonwealth to dispense
one lone Democrat, Col. Jack Chinn.
The colonel wasn't feeling very irritat-
ed, either-just trifle above normal.
Those l. o. U.'s
IF MEMORY rightly serves this hum
BILE scribe, it's almost time for our
government to go through the laugh
able routine of sending off the GUS
tomafy batch of those quaint please
remit notes to remind the European
powers that accumulated installments
and back interest payments are over
due on that little debt of eleven or
twelve billions.
The usual procedure will be fol-
lowed-that is, the rest of 'em will just
ignore the whole theory, and somebody
in Paris, where the reputation idea
originated. will denounce Uncle Sam
for his hideous greed.
Lafayette, they amt there"
IRWIN S. COBB.
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