Show Thistle Notes There Is no important news from here we do not even talk about politics poli-tics We take things as they come work whenever we get anything to do but loaf the greater part of the time which furnishes a useful opportunity for study of how our ancestors passed away their time and whether they continued con-tinued to be uncivilized wild and bar barious until the Italians came and showed them how I beleive that you will agree with and that the Teutons and AngloSaxons arc no more intellectually inferior today than they were a thousand thou-sand years ago It seems that Rome has long enough been enjoying the fruits of her labors by insisting that if it were not for her the whole world would be in the darkest dark-est and direst kind of barbarism Let us study the history of our ancestors and by doing so we will soon see that the civilization brought into northern Europe by the Italians was in many respects no superior to the ethics they difitroycd John Thorgeircon |