Show 4 1 The C Eyed Cross Boy I 4 I 1 l' l COUPLE of fake religious l leaders aders wan- wan f fl dered into the city of Nuevo Laredo r Mexico the other day and announced that by bythe the t le Ja laying in on of hands and by faith they 1 would cure all and sundry of any ailments I they possessed In III came the sick the crippled crip- crip pled arid and the malformed b by hundreds There as much uch talk of the cures that had been done Everybody was happy And then something slipped Som Somebody body le led up a crossl cross cross- l L eyed boy And that spilled the beans The prayed and sweated and performed incantations without number all all' aUto to no avail The IThe The boys boy's eyes stayed crossed The crowds lost their faith and the bloom went vent off the thc boom j 1 t Most rost of the striking examples of public enthusiasm gone cockeyed dont don't end in ill quite 60 BO ridiculous a fashion But its it's always somewhat 9 n what similar Someone always leads up ti R a ross eyed bo boy Ever so often you ou know large numbers numbers' of us get all tangled up with some dizzy scheme and arent aren't quite ourselves I for n a n while A goodly multitude sat up all night a year rear or or so ago firm in the belief i that the end of the world was at hand But it didn't come and tJ they ey went away cured A lot of us went nutty over M. M Coue when he Cocaine came to America a few ew years ears back We Ye gib- gib I Jl ered his mystic formula in the fond belief r W hat it would make make t the thc c blind to see and nd tI the e 1 to run But it didn't and presently we wety wet t ty found we were over it and able to go back Jo io to work v. v Or to get down to a case a trifle more serious Nearly ten teH years ears ago we got in iu- L r III in a war jt lt was to be a war that 1 would end all wa wars f and H wipe away a all 11 tea tears s and most of us really lived III in the belief ellef that the worlds world's major troubles would slide away through the magic of war and the w would c come me as soon as the peace treaty was signed But somehow it didn't work out that way vay We Ve discovered in in fact were we're still discovering it that it-that that the way to make the world a better place is the the same old way to work and sacrifice and struggle always for tor forthe forthe the good things to support justice justile and practice tics thee kindness neighborliness and to tolerance elance So we got over oyer our habit Of of going about with our mouths open looking for a a. great light from heaven an and settled down to do our work again Its It's always s 's the wa way We 0 go off on a tangent over some new idea or theory or superstition and we forget to work and it raises hob with us generally But we get over it Somebody alwa always s 's leads a cross e eyed cross ed boy around |