Show 11 1 J T-IMELY T IMELY TOPICS Pios 1 THE OUTGROWN WHIP In this da day of advanced ideas It Jt Is hard to und tinder tinder- r- r stand how the daily dally pi press ess day after atter day I is enabled to carr news va items about the flogging of human beings Sometimes the he are masked sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times they are not Either way the act of oi Itself I stamps a community in which the floggings are carried on as below the level intellectually and mo morally t I Long ago fl flogging was quite common It was once permitted in the army where soldiers were publicly flogged for lor sm small ll Infractions of discipline In the nav navy the merchant marine service In public schools and then there was the flogging of slaves had much to do with the of their freedom Some courts even no now v it is said sentence culprits to td a given gi number nu ber of lashes on art the bare back back S These floggings a as our ur country made progress progress more and d more into dIsfavor or until at last such tuch manner of punishment has been almost relegated relegated rele rele- gated rated to the past except when midnight violate the law of the land and of and wreak a real or Imaginary on some borne defenseless man tian or woman who haa ha incurred their displeasure It Ft Is is doubtful If a a- flogging especially by mob or orb or orby r b by Jy court order ever brought about one one Iota of ot reformation On n the other ther h hand nd It kindles a fire of f hatred d that is unquenchable so long as life lasts Omaha World Herald I PROOF BULLET If It If 1 g had I had to stop my Work every time tim anyone shot bot at al me I would T never ge get anything done So Colonel Roosevelt In the Spanish-American Spanish war is rep reported to have flave answered a solicitous officer who wanted him to move mo his tent to a place better sheltered sheltered sheltered shel shel- I from the enem enemy's s fire And so the people who get things done have had to think and arid answer since the world began For I almost everybody Is the target for some kind of ot shot be the more I and and- the more l' ambitious one may numerous tie the attacks To turn turnabout about and try to dodge or answer them only ohly leads on one away from ones one's main mam purpose purpOseS Some people get so busy answering criticisms that they forget torget what the they had started out to doThen do Then there are those who seem to spend their whole lives looking for tor slights or imagining snubs or grieving when they get them for of ot course they get what they are looking for Such people never have had an any absorbing interest in life to be begin in with If they could have engrossing work or or interest interest inter inter- est eat they would be surprised to find that there were no more slights for they wouldn't have ha time to think about them and a slight Is not a slight unless there it Ohio Ohio State Journal is a mind r ready ady to receive S |