Show TAKE IT BACK DAY should the particular tide of reform that has ha welled swelled up uli inthe little town of carmen oklahoma sweep over the whole country many are the thousands thousand that will have good cause to bless the name of this hitherto unknown hamlet for this flood brings avith a priceless jetsam in the shape of one once e possessions that have been long lov ed cd and lost in brief carmen has originated ani and celebrated take 1 1 it t back D ay ne raty r y in the year when each citizen shall make restitution to his neighbor of whatever he has borrowed in the past the immensity of this conception stuna stun the reader imagine what wha i it t might mean to have one day in the year when without discourtesy one might rightfully demand mand that book those laschat las that V or X or worse which because bec ube take it back day had not been invented and was regarded as belonging in the sanle same class with perpetual longing and the millennium were long lon s ago are charged to profit profi i and loss the news account ef cf this great day is disappointingly brief but as the kansas city journal remarks enough is told to make it clehr clear that take it back day was an unqualified success those who returned borrowed articles grudgingly seem to have concealed their chagrin at being forced to give up while the joy of those who got back sugar flour lemon squeezed rakes feather beds and salt which they had loaned long months before waa unconfined the dis dispatches s are significantly silent as to whether hether any umbrellas were restored to their rightful owners perhaps that would be asking too tio much for the first year or perhaps the omission is a skillful ski ll 11 allusion by implication or common knowledge of human nature to the fact that umbrellas are a appropriated rather than borrowed be that as it may however lio wever the fundamental idea of take it back day is an excellent one and carmen deserves all the celebrity which has acquired there are limitless possibilities ties to the scheme and in time even those who tell fibs bibs on their neighbors may be induced to them back and upon the day of take it back the grand rapids press reads on everyday monette ser if you have in your possession a book for which the owner has haa been hunting high and low take it back neighbors lawn mower mcp reposes in your shed take it back if in a it moment of forgetfulness voul heatedly told your rival what you thought of him go goto to him and tell man to man that you did not mean a t word of bf it if you owe any citizen ten dollars take it back even tho the debt be outlawed and last but not least if you have been nourishing a grudge again against stany any man woman or child in that co comma ammu ity take that grudge back and join hands with the other party in a dan ceover over its grave hows that for an idea honestly carried out would it not add a cubit to the civic stature ita iture and if here and there n R die hard were discovered who cherished his antagonism overmuch would not li partial artial s success in such a program make an akyi town torri more livable I 1 the best thing about this idea is that one need not wait for a second to the motion today i without further delay we can go the rounds taking things back baal lo 10 de deeds eds words possessions hatreds hat reds jealousies and envies i life is too short existence too to precarious and individual dif ferencek feren ces too slight to warrant I 1 the assumption that there is nothing to arbitrage arbi trae between him of elf and his neighbor and neighbor is a might comprehend compre corn brehen hen sive term it can be stretched to include all humanity literary Ii digest gest 1 |