The Coolidge examiner., 1941-05-09
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DIAPERS AND NOSES
by TEX HANCOCK

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Up in the Missouri capitol build
ing artist Thomas Hart Benton has
painted mural depicting the
Social History of Missouri" in
which woman is shown pinning
a diaper on a baby and boy
his nose at someone.
Representative David A. Hess,
last week, presented a bill to the
legislature asking the painter to
remove these offensive" scenes
from the painting. He thinks the
woman should serve the baby in
more private quarters and that
the boy should keep his hands in
his pockets.
Evidently Mr.. Hess is lover
of our more modern art which
seems to consist of dabs of paint
smeared on canvass in such a
manner as to leave one guessing
what the picture is about. The
theory seems to be that art is
something one should see but not
understand. Possibly he rates art
on the basis of political speaking
in which a candidate says a lot
but says nothing.
Mr.. Hess stated that the
mothers task should in all cases
be performed in more private sur
roundings." Which is quite true
except that it can't always be
done. And, anyway, practically
everyone knows the babies have
to wear 'em (the diapers), that
Mr.. Hess once wore 'em and that
all the little Hesses. and other
infants, will likely wear 'em for
long time to come. Such a com
mon practice as diaper changing
should be of no particular shock
to anyone except a bachelor.
AS for the boy thumbing his
nose at someone-that is also a
common practice. Even when we
refrain from actually committing
the physical act there is lot OF
mpntal nose-thumbing going on
all the time, a lot of which is
directed toward these sensitive
politicians. In fact, we have 4
hunch that nose-thumbing in that
direction has increased nigh
in the State of Missouri since
Representative Hess offered UP
his protest.
OLD SAYING
Give a dog bad name and
the town will do the rest"
Week before last the President
told the nation that Mr.. Lindbergh
was dumb. The object of the state
ment was to discredit him in the
eyes of the public. The President
didn't bother to notify Mr.. Lind
bergh first that he was dumb.
Last week Mr.. Lindbergh re-
signed his post as Colonel in the
Air Corps Reserve because my
loyalty to my country, my motives
and my character" were question
ed.
Because the press got the news
before the President did it was
considered more reason to attempt
to smear Lindbergh out of the
picture. We do not agree with
Lindbergh but we do champion
his right to disagree with the
President if he wants to. We be-
lieve in his sincerity which Is
more than we can do concerning
others who are loud-talking these
days.
The war has muddled us up no
little. 1t gives excuse for personal
that are unbecoming high
places. 1t causes us to switch
terms and twist meanings such as
convoy" to patrol" 1t encour-
ages a spirit of condemnation
toward those who differ with us
in our opinion as to national af-
fairs.
Branding people with accusa-
tions and then trying to push them
along with behind-the-back tongue
isn't our idea of our
much footed, much threatened
democracy.
We are in the war. A lot OF
people have not wanted it and
have said so. But even those who
the program will be
right in their doing their part
along with those who were ready
to take the dive months ago.
Let's keep our hands. We may
need them later on.
WHERE 1T COMES FROM
A little boy about four dropped
in one day and finally ventured
into the living room. He gazed
around and discovered that my
book shelves were plain wood with
no varnish or paint He said: "Our
book case is painted red. We
painted it red because it looked
worse than the devil. Why don't
you paint your book case red so
it won't look worse than the
1evil?"