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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
EASTER AND SPRING.
One cannot dissociate Easter
and spring, no matter how
early or late the religious fest
ival may come nor how unseas
onable the weather attending
its advent. Easter is spring and
life is reborn. The dead days
are past and the requiem of
winter is forgotten as the birds
commence to sing the resur
rection of nature. The poet
sighs, the sun smiles, perhaps,
and the woman with a new
spring hat looks anxiously at
the irieteorological emanations
from the shrine on high Olym
pus which the irreverent flip
pantly call the weather works
Besides its religious meaning
that is the spirit and signifi
cance of Easter and it is oldei
even than the Christian relig
ion. The display of colors and
raiment in unison with the
earth throwing off its old gar
ments is as ancient as the race
Man always has wanted to sing
as soon as the birds did and he
has done so. Even the Bible
has its beautiful poetic allus
ions to spring, and the vernal
festivals of ancient days were
a public expression of the song
that was in the hearts of the
people as a whole. We do not
have anything we did not in
* herit, so it is not strange that
a woman wants a pretty hat
at Easter time. As a matter oi
fact it would be strange if she
did not. And it is not to be ex
pected that poet-s will quit car
oling about spring as long ai
nature sends winters that in
spire poets to say “Oh, wind
if winter comes, can spring bt
far behind?”
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RENOVATION.
Communities looking about ai
this time of year for ways ol
expressing civic pride can find
no better vehicle than a “clean
up, paint-up” campaign.
Than the present, there is nc
time of the year when a com
munity can look dirtier and
more univiting or cleaner and
purer. Undisturbed, winter’s
accumulation of dirt and de
birs hides all that is clean and
fresh. Washed off a nd carted
off it reveals a panorama little
the worse for the wear and
tear of the rigorous months.
Every property owner, house
holder and business man
hould sense an overpowering
duty in the spring of the year
to make his buildings and
grounds fit into nature’s pict
ure of cleanliness and fresh
ness. And the perfomance of
this civic duty costs little in
time, expense and effort.
It is the little thing that
:ounts. Rusty cans can mar a
yard; a new coat of paint can
‘make” a house. Nothing bet
ter tells the character of a com
munity and its people than the
;ize of its public dump.
So the town one wants to live
n is busily engaged these days
n clearing away the wreckage
left by winter, covering up the
scars and helping nature mend
her wounds.
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BEING USEFUL.
Men and women who sow the
;eed of constant useful activity
•eap the harvest of success
from a soil fertilized by their
own steady purpose. It would
oe as foolish to expect success
without active exertion as to
gather a crop before you plant
he seed. But in cultivating
hat character which reaps
rue achievement you may sow
n all seasons and gather the
fruits with the serene assur
ance that even wind and
veather—storm and stress—are
i part of the process of person
al growth.
Optimism is an ally of effort
ind success. It is the kernel of
the nut, not the shell. It is the
fine trait of the men, not the
faults. It is the flowers on the
hillside, not the dead leaves
under the snow. It is the oppor
tunity in any job, not the grind.
It is up to the individual
whether his world will be gold
[en or drab. Optimism in a
world is the eye of the soul. It
is the color in the vision reveal
ing the fine beyond the coarse,
the best beyon<t-the worst.
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DO YOU READ?
“Tell me what you eat, and
I will tell you what you are,”
has cried a publicist so often
that he has coined a house
hold axiom. Well might an
other say: “Tell me what you
read and I will tell you what
you are!”
The mind is the house in
which we live more truly than
is the body. If we furnish the
mind garishly we must live in
a garish house. If we furnish
the mind carelessly, we must
live in a slovenly house. If we
take our mental furniture only
from the past, we shall live in
the past alone. If we take ii
only from the faddish notions
of the present we shall live
amid fads and foibles, which
vanish e’er we know them.
But if, on the other hand, oui
mental diet is balanced, com
prised of the foods tested by
time and sauced and spiced by
the piquancy of the present
we may live a balanced, order
ed life.
We can with impunity pour
poisons and dark, wild, disor
dered thoughts into our mind?
no more than we can day after
day find strength and health
from spurious food?, hastily
prepared, indigestible.
To read well, read discrimi
nately, widely, thoroughly.
What we read becomes part
and parcel of us.
Just for Fun
A good way to save money is
■o makt a ore than you have
[ time to spend.
A reformer is a man who
thinks that every acquittal is a
miscarriage of justice.
Self-government doesn’t long
survive if government itself
tries to do it all.
Driving in the country is saf
sr. Rural telephone poles are
fragile things.
The wise man knows when
he has had enough—before he
“Dad. I’ve decided to be
come an artist.’’
“No objection, provided you
don’t draw on me.”
“Before we. were married,
you called me an angel. Now
you don’t call me anything.”
“Well, that evidences my
self-control.”
The best way to improve the
postal service is to stop mail
ing bills.
j Women don’t play ball be
! cause the players are too far
apart to talk.
Our prediction of the hottest
summer ever is based on the
fact that all summery are that
hot.
“Jimmy, I wish you would
learn better table manners;
you’re a regular little pig at
the table,” said Jimmy’s dad.
Silence on Jimmy’s part.
Then to make it more im
oressive, Jimmy’s father ask
3d, “Do y ou know what a pig
s?”
“Yes, sir,” Jimmy replied i
.neekly, “its a hog’s little boy.”
Long hair is said to be com
ng in, which is bad news for
nilady who had it bobbed be
cause it was coming out.
Manager Accident Insurance
Company: “So you’re positive
;hat her aecident was faked?”
Investigator: “Sure; she said
her heel caught in the hem of
her dress.”—Ex.
Juror—“I can’t serve on this
->anel, Judge. Just one look at
hat man convinces me he is
juilty.”
Judge—“That’s not the pris
>ner. That’s the prosecuting
attorney.”
“Fifty years ago, Elizabeth,
[ preached against trousers for
women. Now I’m praying God
will send them quick—before
its too late.”
Jim says:—“A wife when she
explores a husband’s pockets
usually gets what/ all ex
plorers get—enough material
for a lecture.”
Husband—It is a strange
thing, but true, that the big
gest fools have the most
jeautiful wives.
Wife (pleased)—Oh, you
flatterer.
Mrs. Nut (handing her hus
band a saucerful of white
oowder)—John, taste that and
:ell me what you think it is.
Mr. Nut—It tastes like soda.
Mrs. Nut—That’s what I told
Bridget. She declares it is rat
poison. Taste it again to make
sure.
Some people are human ra
dios, they claim they were
good last night and promise
esults tomorrow night—but
oh the static today.
One day in school the teach
er said: “Micky, please gjve
us a definition of salt.’’
“Shure,’’ Micky responded,
“its the stuff that makes the
potatoes taste bad when you
boil ’em and don’t put any in.”
What kind of lectures do you
enjoy most?”
“Those I do not have to listen
to.”
“Has your husband given up
golf?”
“Yes, but he still retains the
language when he changes
tires.”
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“Rastus, do the people who
live across the street from you
keep chickens?’
Rastus—-“Dey keeps some of
’em, sah.’’
Lawyer—I don’t see what you
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'about. Its a simple matter to
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Client—But the question is
who’s to take over the assets
and who the liabilities?
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