Show Jottings Fro broz I II IIa t a Prodigal n nI I I The other day I was v as talking to anold an anold old friend and in our quiet conversation conversa- conversa conversatIon tIon about one thing and another he There are made the following remark two of people In thIs world orId workers and shirkers Then he wenton went I Ion on and said he had mingled with several sev- sev several eral of this kind among the C C C sand s and C W As A's m in the work ork he had been I privileged to note in his meanderings I around the country Some of them were cre t splendid willIng to do an anI I honess day s work for their money chiselers while others were ere drones or trying to do tale t e least they could and get by with It There Ther are shirkers and workers m in every line of work And let leti i me add to what he said and say that self respect and the knowledge that you I are earning your salt alt IS worth more than all the prizes of luck and favor and dIs- dIs dIshonesty dishonesty Then again agam there is honesty honesty m in the world as well as workers work work- workers ers and shirkers One reads of it in the dally daily press of the country Even in the C W A work w e are jolted wIth the news that some women omen are even following the line of least w ork and chiseling a afe afew few fe dollars from the C W A We are arenC arene read of men ne nC startled started when we I r things of this kind but I surely get a terrific jolt when women start in into into to follow the example of the male persuasion per per- persuaSIon suaSIon Verily Venly the world IS changing And then we ve get another another Jolt com com- coming coming ing from the Secretary of States State's offIce Ugly rumors fly through the aIr about clerks in his lus offIce who have not been just what they should be from the standpoint of honesty It is a most regrettable thing that men elected to office in CIty county or state cannot play the game honestly and as it should be I am not inferrIng that the Sec Sec- Secretary Secretary of State has been crooked I cannot think that a man of his calibre and standing in this state would lend hImself to any crookedness When temptations crowd your pathway path path- pathway I way Shapes of sm sin which beckon you I They will fade away like shadows If you just Shoo say I When lIfes lIfe's worries when life s sorrows Blacken all the sky for you I They will scatter showing sunshine If you just Shoo say It has not fallen to my lot to remain for a lifetime in the town of birth I have met many a person who has lived in the same to town ton n from birth to the the- day day- of death except for the short trips on pleasure bent to some place near or far farI farI I have hae often wondered how much I have made by leaving the old home hometown hometown homeI town In dollars and cents I am per per- persuaded persuaded I that it has not amounted to very much At times I have been persuaded per per- persuaded that the old sod would have been as remuneratIve financially as the into strange and at times friendless places But w v e can can- cannot cannot not all al stay in the old town and some if f us must get away into far and re- re remote remote mote places FriendshIp cheers the faint and weary I 1 Wakes Makes the timid SPIrit brave Warns the lIghts the dreary I the passage to the grave I II I have found friendship devoted and andI true among strangers I have found I lothers others cared naught for new newfound I found frIends even If they wished to toI tobe tobe I be frIendly I II I am loath to send you thIS note Bish as I have not been In the right l I mood during the tIme I have tried tIled to scrIbble It off If you 11 try to over over- overlook overlook look my apparent slothfulness and andi i feeble effort this time wait until II I am in a more jovIal and better spIrit if possIble before I make you another Jotting Thanks and good bye YOU KNOW ME |