The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-01-07

But our consola- s1aas'1
ton was that we'd Irwin 8. Cobb
aided all those ear
nest undergraduates to complete the
education for which they painted as
the hart panteth after the water
brook.
Can it be that the gallant army
packed the campuses until vast
numbers got crushed in the jam?
Or is it that many of them are
getting too old to travel around?
lately there has been an unaccount-
able falling-off in the business. We
are bearing up bravely, since now
we have more time in which to lead
our own lives.
P. ST. have on hand complete
file for 1885 of the Northwestern Bee
Raiser which I would like to trade
for a ukulele.
Matriarchy's Approach.
COME inspired philosopher-and
- not a woman either-declares
that within century women will
dominate every imaginable field of
human endeavor.
What do you mean, within CEN
fury? If the prophet will leave out
the ancient science Of growing chin
whiskers and the knack of making
sleeping car washroom look like a
hurrah's nest I'm saying that wom-
en- are already away out in front
everywhere.
Since Henry the Eighth, the two
greatest kings England had were
both queens-Elizabeth and Victo-
ria. Men thought up war and inn
proved the art Of war and now are
hoping to perfect it to the point of
exterminating the species, but twas
in the midst of bloody warfares
that Florence Nightingale laid the
foundations and Clara Barton built
the structure of mercy by method
and life-saving by skill and tender
ness and sanitation.
Take this country at the present
moment: for energy, for readiness
of speech, for range of interest, for
versatility in making publicity and,
incidentally, acquiring it, for endur-
ance under strain, what man
amongst us is to be compared with
the first lady of the language, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Banishing Sectionalism.
ON ONE stretch of road down
~ here-and it is not a main-trav-
eled highway and this not exactly
the tourist season. saw cars bear
ing license tags of nine separate
states, ranging from New Hamp-
shire and Florida to Utah and Ore
gon, besides one from Hawaii and
one from Puerto Rico. And next
summer Texas cars will be boring
into every corner of this Union and
the folks riding in them will be
getting acquainted with their fellow
countrymen and finding out that,
when you know the other fellow,
he's not so different, after all.
Like most evil things, sectional
ism and parochial prejudices and
with Vermont neighbor to Virginia
and the Dakotas talking it over with
the Carolinas, there's seed being
sown which inevitably must sprout
a finer yield of Americanism than
any our land ever, produced-n only
we keep the tares of communism
and the chaff of snobbery out Of
the crop, only make patriotic service
thing of elbow-grease and not Of
Improvements.
What price, then, the wearers Of
the black shirts and the white
sheets; the parlor pinks, the yellow
internationalists and the red flag
waivers?
Freedom Of the Press.
DICTATORS invariably cancel
- freedom of the press and curb
freedom Of education. Otherwise,
they fail.
Although he uttered the words
over $50 years ago, Governor Berke-
ley of Virginia spoke for all the
breed of political tyrants when he
said: IT thank God there are no
free schools, nor printing, for learn
ing has brought disobedience and
heresy into the world. and printing
has divulged them"
Foulness in drama or literature,
like a skunk penned under barrel,
eventually destroys itself by just
naturally choking to death on its own
smell.
Control Of the newest medium of
publicity, the radio, is easy. But
information put in type keeps on
travelling. No people ever stayed
free once the press-and the school
teacher had been muzzled.
IRWIN s. COBB.
I conxriaht. serxica