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NEXT TO READING MATTER
'The average magazine story these days starts
off with half a dozen paragraphs and an illustra
tion, and then jumps to the advertising section,
where it trickles along between canned milk and
floor wax.
It’s hard to read straight through even a love!
passage without spilling over into the paid matter, 1
and getting a distorted idea of what the author is
saying. Unless you pay strict attention to the
“continued on” guide lines, the result is apt to be
something like this:
Halfway down the path they came to a little
shady nook . . . recommended by a generation of
users. She was conscious of his manly form . . .
built of white pine and reinforced at the corners.
He was her ideal of a prince . . . one of the 57
varieties. As for him, he could not help regarding
her . . . the most perfect talking machine.
It seemed to him that he would have to tell her
how much he loved her . . . combining the purest
ingredients. He stroked her hair . . . as differ
ent from ordinary macaroni as tenderdoin steak
is from round steak. She nestled close to his side,
ready to ... refuse substitutes.
“Dearest, ” he murmured . . . looking like new.
“Dearest, this is the moment I have longed for . . .
because of its pleasing flavor.”
She did not answer at once. Her thoughts
seemed ... at the nearest grocery.
He took her hand in his and held her close . . .
allowing the skin to breathe.
“Will you be mine?” he asked, in a tone . . .
recommended by boards of health.
“I have often thought of being a wife,” she an
swered, after a little pause . . . designed to bring
out the curves of the figure. “But before I ac
cept,” she went on, “I thought I would . . . ask the
man who owns one.”
“If you mean your father, I am sure he will
give his consent. You name the day and I’ll . . .
keep contents hot for twenty-four hours.”
lie folded her in his arms and his kisses were
. . . supplied direct from the factory.
“Say that you will marry me,” he repeated.
“Very well,” she whispered, “I’ll . . . try it
for thirty days.”
With that he kissed her again and against . . .
showing many different styles and patterns.—Ex.
v A certain outside church prints on the back of
its program of services these words:
“I will not worry,” “I will not be afraid,” ”1
will not give way to anger,” “I will not yield to en
vy, jealousy or hatred,” ”1 will be kind to every
man, woman and child with whom I come in con
tact,” “I will be cheerful and hopeful,” “I will
tiust in God and bravely face the future,”
Some will scoff and some will laugh but they
are worth attention just the same. About all there
is in life worth striving for is suggested in these
few lines. Houses, lands, bonds, automobiles are
fine possessions. But far more precious still to any
one, in any station, are the measures of the mind and
soul—composure, courage, cheerfulness, tolerance,
kindness, hope—all these and faith in something
higher than that which the eyes see and the hand
holds.
A GOOD BEDTIME STORY
Recently the president of the Southeastern Ex
press Company died. Wednesday the directors
of the company met in Atlanta and elected his suc
cessor. J. E. Skaggs is the name of the man chosen.
You can depend upon it that the directors of
a big corporation, in which their money is invested,
are pretty careful when it comes to choosing the
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man who is to run their business. They never se
lect a little man for a big job.
Probably the majority of us don’t know J. E.
Skaggs, but the directors of the Southeastern do.
We doubt not that there were relatives of some of
the big stockholders in the concern hanging around
who would have accepted the position if it had been
offered them, but it wasn’t.
And who is Skaggs? lie is a fellow who was
driving a wagon for an express company 31 years
ago. He was a good driver, and paid attention to
his business, and so his superiors gave him a better
job. He made good at everything he tackled, and
went right on winning promotions. Now he is the
boss of “the whole works.”
That’s a pretty good bedtime story to tell the
little boys who are old enough to play “fireman” or
“policeman” or something else in which they pic
ture themselves as heroes.
It is all right to send the children into dream
land thinking about “Little Red Riding Hood” and
“Jack the Giant Killer,” but vary the programme
a little by telling about Skaggs the driver and
Skaggs the president.
Let the little boys know that the door of oppor
tunity is never locked; that it always opens to those
who pull the latch string.
COOLIDGE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF
U. S. NAVY.
Improvement in the condition of the navy, which
is not maintaining its share of the 5-5-3 combination
agreed upon at the Washington arms conference in
1922, is assured by the act of President Coolidge in
signing the bill for the construction of eight new
scout cruisers which will cost about $11,100,000 each,
the building of river gunboats, to be used principal
ly in Chinese waters, and the modernization of six
of the older battleships, which will be converted from
coal burners to oil burners and undergo other im
provement, including armor reinforcement. We
cannot maintain a great navy without incurring
heavy outlays, and there is not the slightest probabil
ity that 1he country will take part in anything re
sembling a “naval race,” about which much has
been said recently. The fact is, it is doubtful that
our navy will be kept to a parity with that of Great
Britain, to which it is entitled under the arms treaty
and which it should maintain.
ON EGGS AND JUDGES
The universities in this country exchange pro
fessors with the universities of" other countries, points
out a Missouri newspaper, and thereby broadening
the viewpoint of professors and students alike. One
wonders if the government could not be led to make
some arrangement for exchanging judges with other
nations, and in particular if it could not arrange to
bring to this country the Paris judge who has de
fined what a fresh egg is in law. The dispatches
do not give his name, but, whoever this distinguish
ed jurist is, he is needed in this country.
A fresh egg, according to the French court, is
an egg that is not more than two weeks old in sum
mer, or three weeks in winter. Moreover, says the
court, eggs must be labeled according to degrees of
freshness. First, there is the egg that is fresh en
ough to boil, without the use of preservatives. Sec
ond, the egg that is still fresh, although laid a fort
night. And finally, the preserved egg. And woe
be unto the dealer who does not label his eggs prop
erly.
One feels that Paris is going to get fresher eggs
than America, and, for our part, we do not want to
be found asleep in the cold storage house. We move
that the secretary of state be instructed to take up
with the French government the matter of the ex
change of judges, with a view, particularly, of ob
taining the services of this distinguished jurist for
a time. For the sake of expediting matters, we also
second the motion. Are you ready for the ques
tion? - ! m i T V ~ !*•
A news item tells of a Peoria man who is ac
cused of selling his crippled wife’s crutches, leaving
her penniless and going to Florida. Those who are
quick to see the faults of others will feel that the
man should be severely punished, but wait until the
advertisements of Florida winter resorts are intro
duced in court. There is the picture of the golfer,
the bathing girl, the couple in the canoe and dozens
of other attractions in that glorious land where
every sport and pastime flourish under ideal scenic
and climatic conditions, with the zest of good com
panionship.
Doubtless this husband read Florida advertise
ments until liis mind became so affected that he
thought it was right for him to sell his wife’s crut
ches. Overcome with a longing to share the delights
of those resorts his mind probably reached a state
where he believed that when a husband wdshes to go
to Florida, any means justifies the end.
Clearly it is not a case for ordinary men to de
cide. It is another of those cases for the alienist.
LIBERTY THEATRE
WALTER HINES
In
TONIGHT
2 Shows — 7 and 8:45
Walter Hines in the great
est comedy seen here for
a long time. : : :
100 PER CENT. FUNNY
If you want to enjoy yourself come and see this play tonight
ALSO A ONE-REEL COMEDY
And a Beautiful Scenic
Hurry Up
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Thomas H. Ince Presents
MILTON SILLS
SKIN DEEP
DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT A. B. HALL
MILE RUNNING KING
WILL DESERT PATHS
TO BE MISSIONARY
BOSTON, Jan. 12.—One of the most
unusual chapters in athletic history
surrounds the career of Ray Buker,
national mile running champion, and
hailed by Paavo Nurmi, the great
Finn, as his most dangerous rival at
1500 meters in America.
Buker, who represented Uncle
Sam in the Paris Olympics and re
turned to dethrone Joie Ray as Am
erican mile titleholder will make his
farewell on the track during the
coming indoor season. With his
twin brother, Richard, he is prepar
ing for South American missionary
servce, but before he leaves to take
up this task, Ray hopes to match
strides at least once more with
Nurmi and *his other rivals. He may
get his first opportunity in the
“Mile Special” at the Finnish-Am
erican games here January 6, when
he is entered with a crack field, in
cluding Nurmi and Joie Ray.
Missionaries of a new type, the
Buker boys, both athletic stars and
rivals in their days at Bates college,
Maine, are sons of a clergyman,
Rev. Fred M. Buker of Anthony, R.
whose work in Bolivia they are
now qualifying to carry on. They
have a similarity in ministerial aims
as close as their personal resem
blance to each other. They will go
to Bolivia together, Ray as pastoral
missionary; Richard as a medical
missionary.
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