Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-05-17
OTHERS VIEWS
HE WANTS. no SWEAR SOME

Knowing you as do, am sure you
desire, at least a degree of moderation
on the part of those who ask to use
your columns, and thoroughly appre-
ciate your position and firmly indorse
your stand. like to be agreeable,
kind and considerate; viewing, impair
TALLY, both sides of dispute and CIV
ing each contender credit: in full
heaped and rounded measure, for all
the merits his proposition warrants.
But it is hard to remember the rules
of euphony or be guided by the die
tates of christian ethics, when you
are so badly provoked, you are crush
ing half uttered damns between your
prorrheas.
Ordinarily, / would ask you to cor
rect the plumbers 1 am going to make
since 1 have chased descriptive ad-
jectives through Webster's Information
al Dictionary, till they have sunk into
whispering silence, and have decided
to make my own words, l feel such
request would be absurd.
1 firmly believe, all men are Great
ed equal and endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable rights, that
among these is the right to think
wrong, but 1 sincerely object to any
one man monopolizing this right. I
contend it is perfectly in order for
comedian to step out on the stage, de-
claring he is going to sing a little
ditty entitled who put warts on
pickles." and then sing, Down in the
Arkansas" Neither do 1 dispute the
right of street monger mounting
soap box, and in order to gather a
crowd, declare: he is the only survivor
who ever plunged over the Niagara
Falls in a rain barrel, waded the
English Channel or leaped the Grand
Canyon, and as soon as the crowd
assemblies, begin selling corn plasters,
hair restorative or some other equal
ly worthless concoction, guaranteed to
cur all the ills that ever beset the
human family. But when it becomes
necessary for a United States Sena-
Tor to stoop to such tactics, you can
rest with the positive assurance that
there is a colored gentleman in the
wood pile. When the only argument,
any high official can offer in defense
Of his action, is too contradictory and
silly for Noah Numskulls, it is time
those Engaged in the task of life"
were giving matters serious considera-
ton
1 contend, man has "a natural and
indefeasible right to oppose the plans
of salvation, if he can offer logical
reason for his opposition, but when a
man talks himself into such a predi-
cament that he is forced to hide be-
hind a SmOke-Screen while he miscOn-
strues, reconstructs, falsely intcrprets
and camouflages the entire matter
under consideration. My knowledge of
medical science compells me to pro-
.nounce him a victim of diarrhea of
the mouth and constipated ideas.
I was astOnished when first learn
ed that there were educated men who
couldn't write, but / am about to be-
come convinced there are some who
can't even read.
The Philadelphia Platform says: eff
those problems cannot be. effectively
sol'ed by legislation within the Con-
stitution, we will seek such clarifying
amendments as will assure to the leg
islatures of the several States and to
the Congress of the United States,
each within it's proper jurisdiction, the
power to enact these laws" Which
means, of course, THAT if we fail,
after exhausting. every possible effort,
to enact the necessary legislation, in
spite of the Supreme Court, we will
at last in desperation seek an amend
ment, this is the only logical con-
struction, and is set forth in language
so plain and emphatic, that it seems
impossible for wayfaring man,