Show AMAN IS ONLY A MAN MANA A man I know kno knois Is In trouble trouble bad bad trouble trou trou- ble I I get pet a decent salary he wild said to me the tho other day but I got behind a year or so EO ago through sickness and various things and Ive I've never caught up Im Pm In debt and I dont don't belle believe Ill I'll ever get out of or It I dread the first of or every month just as aA a a. condemned man dreads execution day Tap tap knock knock r br they're at the tho door all day the day the collectors At first I could stave slave them off orr with a promise and a a. dollar or two but now the they hound mo me like a pack packo o of the bloodhounds ve se used to read about In Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin Im I'm afraid arald Ill I'll have hoc to leavo o town and go somewhere elso else and s start tart again Why dont don't you rou pay nav av UD up I said to tho the man I know He Ho stared at me with as astonished astonished as- as o eyes es Pa Pay Pa Paup up ho he said Why Phy Id I'd give ton ten years ears of ot m my life if it I could pa pay up Ten years ears of ot your our life said eald I a good price Ho your our cigars and ond your our whisky whisk and soda and your little lit little lit lit- lIttie tle tie after the tho theater couldn't theater couldn't suppers you ou give them up for tor sa say six months I L should think that would be better than to give gl ten years cars of ot your life Ue or even on than running awa away like a coward Theres a a. little woman In a newspaper office who ho works at the telephone ex exchange ex- ex I change chango sho she gets 10 a week she's supporting sup BUD porting a Il mother and six brothers on that 10 She showed me mc the deeds on that lot sho's buying out where her brothers brother's tent Is I If she sho can do that on 10 a week I should think you OU could pay a n few taw honest debts on 60 The man mon gasped then ho he shrugged his shoulders and then he lie smiled Oh well o of course courso ho said a woman can do that sort o of thing a man cant Why not I queried mild mildly Oh Ob well a man cant can't that's all You in mean menn an a man wont won't said I. I and then we both laughed and changed the Cu subject If I really cared anything for or the tho man I know I would havo have been honest enough to keep leep right on with the subject and I would have said Now I dont don't want to lecture you Jou and Im I'm not going to but please dont don't come and tell mo me your our troubles again until youve you've made up your our mind to face taco them like a n man not to try to run away from tram them like a deserter Its It's all a n question of ot what you rou really like in tho tue world and what you Ou pretend to like The trouble with Is like you Jou you your our own comfort better batter than you OU like being an honest man You say cay you ou dread the of ot er e every month ne as a criminal dreads ex execution execution ex- ex da day yet et you ou dont don't dread It as much as aB you ou do th the Idea of giving up somo omo fool tool little luxury you ou would bo be just justas as well off oft without Im not blaming you ou for your our ou like and dislikes you didn't mako make yourself O Of course you ou could do something toward m making yourself o over or r a a. bit If It you really reany wanted to but that Isn't the thc question question question ques ques- tion were we're discussing What I dislike about you Is that jou OU wont won't tell yourself the truth about yourself your Jour self self and take the consequences You really re really really re- re ally prefer living on other peoples people's money and getting fat tat on other peoples people's worry to denying yourself any o of the fool little luxuries luxuries luxuries lux lux- uries you make yourself bellevo believe aro arc Now why dont don't you OU admit It But you ou see sec I didn't really care so eo I Inas was nas dishonest enough to let tho the man I know go about his business feeling he ha Is a n martyr instead o of waking him up to tho the fact that he ho is nothing but Lut a selfish thief I wonder f If I did right right Winifred Black In Los An Angeles cles Examiner |