The midland journal., September 06, 1946, Image 6

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Home-Town Echoes By C. Kessler
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A LIKELY YARN
Veteran—We had one fellow in
our outfit who was so big that it
took his girl two years to knit him
a sweater.
Ditto—Some yarn I
Over the Top
When Sam was asked how he
budgeted his income, he replied:
“Oh, about 40 per cent for food,
30 per cent for shelter, 30 per
cent for clothing, and 20 per cent
for amusement and incidentals.”
"But that makes 120 per cent!”
“Lord, don’t I know it!”
Not Particular
“So you have a new dog," said
Harry to Tommy. “What’s he like?”
“Oh, he’ll eat almost anything,”
answered Tommy.
MIDLAND JOURNAL, RISING SUN, MD.
SHARPSHOOTER
“How did you get that bump on
your head?”
“My wile threw a vase at me.”
“Why on earth didn’t you duck?”
“I did, but she allowed for it.”
What’s the Difference
A well-dressed man was shopping
for a shirtwaist for his wife.
“What size and color, please?"
the salesgirl asked.
"It doesn’t matter,” he answered.
“Whatever size or color I get, I’ll
have to come back tomorrow and
change it.”
Awake Anyhow
Oscar—l can’t sleep nights be
cause of this danged toothache.
Michael—Then why don’t you get
a job as a night watchman?
THE PSYCHIATRIST AND
THE WORLD
("Psychiatry may play an important part
in world peace. United Nations World
Health Organization is told.”—News Item)
Doctor (looking at the battered
world) Now just relax and be
perfectly candid with me. I want
to find out what’s the matter with
you.
World Can you find anything
that ain’t?
Doctor lt’s all a matter of psy
chiatry, I think; just a matter of
reviewing your past life.
World Reviewing my past will
be no help, doc. It only makes me
feel worse.
Doctor Just leave that to me.
Now we’ve got to find out what has
made you act the way you do. Did
anything ever happen to you as a
child? Did you ever fall out of your
high chair?
World I couldn’t say for cer
tain. But I’ve been falling out of it
ever since!
Doctor I ask that because I ob
serve many bruises on your head.
World You should see the ones
in some other places 1
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Doctor Was your home life
marked by violence at any period?
World Sometimes I don’t feel
that I had any home life; it seems
that I was always on horseback or
on an army truck.
Doctor Did you as a child feel
frustrated, unable to express your
self, balked in attaining your de
sires?
World One time when I
showed up with gun powder, which
was really a lovely plaything, they
bawled me out sumpin’ awful. I got
licked for that, too.
Doctor Clear as a belli They
filled your young mind with the
feeling of frustrations. Your
natural development was thwarted.
I’ll bet they even objected when
you played with poison gas.
World Yep. What a row they
made. I remember they said I
would come to no good end and
might even wind up as the kind of
boy who would throw atom bombs.
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Doctor Just as I thought! You
were never allowed to express your
self fully! You became an intro
vert, a duplexvert and possibly a
nincomvert.
World Yeah! Ain’t parents
awful?
(This settles everything. The psychia
trist promises to fix him up in no time.
All he has to do is to let himself go, shake
of) all inhibitions, regard himself as mas
ter of his fate, take some new vitamins,
and come in every Tuesday between wars).
• * *
Four Years Later
(“Guadalcanal invaded four years ago
this month.”—News item.)
From the dead of Tanembogo,
From Tulagi’s sandy graves
And through Lunga’s battered palm
trees
And from shallow, fetid caves
Come the voices of our heroes
Like a challenge tensely hurl’d,
“What about them lofty speeches?
“How’s about that better world?”
Gaunt, gray ghosts of valiant young
sters—
Kids who made the sacrifice—
Stir beneath the palm fronds ask
ing
“Cancha make it worth the price?
What of goods for which we battled?
What of dreams that made us glad?
And the world can merely whisper,
“Would we had the answer, lad!”
• • •
QUITE A GIRL!
“SITUATION WANTED Young
woman, eager to be world citizen,
seeks work abroad, preferably on
continent. Secretary, script writer, 1
radio actress, charm lecturer, fash
ion model. Attractive, educated,
alert to unusual. Box 425 Q.”—Sat
urday Review.
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If she could only do the laundry
and give bird calls!
• • •
/■' W est Haven, Conn., man, John Spah
enb. rg, has developed the winner of a
chicken-of-tomorrow nation-wide elimina
tion contest. It weighs almost four pounds j
at the age of 14 weeks. Now if something
will be done toward smaller potatoes we
may get a good chicken pie.
• • •
Voice of Old Time Bali Fans
This makes us feel old, wizened
wrecks:
Those views of Tyrus Cobb in specs.
• • •
“OPA Raises Price of Bread”—
headline.
What goes? We thought OPA was
for keeping down the costs of liv
ing. First it authorizes the smaller
loaf; now it ups the charge. We
have an idea for a profitable busi
ness : A detective agency protect
ing bread boxes in any home.
• *
John R. Steelman has refused to
approve another wage raise for
1 lumber workers. His reply in effect
is “Knots to you!”
Kathleen Norris Says:
Does Your Family Go to Church?
Bell Syndicate.—WNU Features.
“/ don’t know why God is so good to us,” certain obscure mothers say, their faces
radiant as they contemplate the safe arrival of Tom’s son, the happy marriage of lonely
30-year-old Sister Annie.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
THE beauty of the old days
when everyone went to
church was that religion
gives people a code—a rule by
which to live and by which to
judge their own actions and
those of others.
Without religion it is hard to
hold young persons to moral
law. Their natural question
“Why”? has no answer.
Some years ago, the 17-year-old
daughter of a friend of mine secret
ly rented a small Park avenue
apartment and entertained her
friends there while her mother
thought she was merely dining and
visiting with perfectly nice school
fellows. Her expenses and the
apartment were shared by a boy of
18. To all of her heart-broken par
ents subsequent reproaches she
only pertly answered why “why?”
Why shouldn’t she spend Gran
ny’s legacy that way? Why
shouldn’t girls and boys live togeth
er if they wanted to? Why should
she tell her father and mother
anything? What was there to be
ashamed of? She really did not
know the answers.
At first glance youngsters do not
see the connection between decency
and religion. Religion itself as
demonstrated by many of its ex
ponents has done little to connect
the two. Rituals, long sermons,
incomprehensible formulas, greedy
concern for interest, capital, be
quests, collections, money-making
schemes have clouded the light.
Our children see only these, and
they decline to believe the great
mystical and unproven truths upon
which all real religion is based. If
the lives of the teachers were differ
ent, then their effect upon our chil
dren’s lives would be different.
Greed, Stupidity Hide Glory.
As it is, they are too often cheat
ed out of their birthright of belief,
partly because the blinding glory of
faith is dimmed by so much human
stupidity, partly because their par
ents have gone that same road be
fore them and have decided that re
ligion is merely a profitable busi
ness into which certain men enter;
a “good thing,” if you happen to
be that unthinking, hypocritical sort
of man, willing to fool along mur
muring things you don’t believe or
practice to women who don’t believe
or practice them either.
But, thank God, under this
heavy crust of age-old accumulated
human stupidity, there works con
tinually the yeast of saintliness.
The world is full of unseen, unrec
ognized saints, who have probed
further than this mere outer seem
' ing, who have discovered the magic
of the word, and who are quietly
spreading it with every word they
speak and every contact they
make.
Such persons may be the hum
blest of mothers and fathers, work
ing all their lives for food and shel
ter for those they love, but their
boys and girls will grow up
strong in true morality, believing
that they must keep their hearts
i and their lips clean, that they must
pay what they owe, that they must
keep their word, and give to those
in need, comfort the sorrowing, for
get self in service.
There is no more to it than that.
Only—somehow we don’t find that
unless we find God. It is belief in
God, in our service to God, in the
I ' “Why HMf- iht ,irl iukeJ prrily.
FORCE OF RELIGION
Religion used to be a much
stronger force in American life
than it is today. Too many peo
ple, particularly the young, see
no reason why they can’t do what
they please. They see older peo
ple getting away with all sorts
of crooked business deals, with
deceit, with infidelity. IF hat is
the use of clinging to outmoded
dogmas and restrictive moral
codes, they ask.
As Miss Norris says in today s
article, the young people are de
ceived by the surface of things,
where they see so much of greed,
stupidity and sin. Much of it is
alluring and apparently satisfy
ing. What they don’t see, Miss
Norris points out, is the thou
sands and millions of humble
people who obey the laws of God
and find their greatest happiness
in following His Word.
These humble people knoiv
that faith and the Holy Law will
save young lives from ruin. They
realize that doing the generous,
forgiving thing is worthwhile,
that it brings peace and quiet
happiness. It is the only power
that can save the modern world
from self-destruction.
shortness of our term here and the
necessity of making every moment
of it valuable, that inspires this
sort of teaching and this sort of con
duct. American children have not
been deprived of moral teaching; it
floods over them all during their
home and school years. They have
been deprived of the one thing that
makes that teaching valuable.
Will be a Settlement.
They are like busy workers who
have no employer. The humble true
believer learns of God through the
life of his expiating son, believes
that it matters whether he is hon
est or not, truthful or lying, cruel
or kind. There is a great em
ployer, and eventually there will be
a settlement.
And acting blindly on this belief
for a few years he begins to see
that it works. Problems in his out
er life smooth out; the generous
thing, the forgiving thing, the self
immolating thing is suddenly and
surprisingly the happiest possible
thing.
“I don’t know why God is so good
to us,” certain obscure mothers
say, their faces radiant as they con
template the safe arrival of Tom’s
son, the happy marriage of lone
ly, 30-year-old sister Annie.
You never hear that phrase ex
cept from believers. They see the
surface-scum of human frailty in
their leaders; they know of the
wars, the slums, the selfishness and
dishonesty of the so-called "Chris
tian civilization.” Everyone sees
that.
But they see further, too. They
see that faith and the rule save
young lives. The very leaders them
selves may be lost. But the children
to whom they taught love of God,
and love of neighbor, are the only
safe children in the world. Rob
your children of everything else for
which you are working and strain
ing, but give them faith.
Potatoes for Breakfast
From a caloric standpoint, pota
toes make an excellent substitute
for bread. In addition, they contain
many valuable vitamins and min
erals. Fresh from the garden as
they are at this time of year, they
have a high vitamin C content and
they are a good source of vitamins
B and G. Farm families have
served potatoes boiled or fried
for breakfast for a long time, but
few urban homes have adopted the
practice. Potato pancakes make a
good breakfast dish.