Show I Uncommon Sense I By JOHN BLAKE p Dell fell Service We Wc are negligent of the needs nn and the difficulties of others only because because because be be- cause they Uley rare rare- Help All ly are brought t to You Can our attention Whenever people clearly see and understand th the troubles of ot their fellow creatures they rarely fan fall to help them theta I was WM In San Francisco within t n a week of ot the great grent fire that drove thousands of oC people from comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able homes to seek shelter In tents tent beyond the fire zone Working on a newspaper I had hadan hadan hadan an ample opportunity to see sea how help was coming In from all nU sides and to observe how the rich forgot their pride and taking off oft their coats labored twelve e hours a day das till all that had been driven from their houses were supplied with shelter and food This is one of the fine traits in inhuman inhuman inhuman human nature It takes cover during during during dur dur- ing the average run of events but it comes out when there is a call caU for foi aid S e e e 0 t tIn In Carl Sandburg's fine lne biography of Lincoln he tells how in his early life one of the greatest of or men and of Presidents could never endure to see a hog ho In distress The hogs hofS would go down to the creek creel to drink and become mired In the thick mud which had they not been helped would soon have drawn them down to their deaths Then the tall lanky prairie youth driving past and observing them would pull off ofT his coat cont and sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times the remainder of his attire and by exerting his tremendous strength th pull the squealing porkers porkers pork pork- ers out on high land He smiled happily while they waddled away to safer footing Little In that time did T Lincoln or nn anyone one else dream that before so many years he would be rescuing a n. great nation from destruction e e Today there are many reasons for mutual helpfulness In the world It Is n a time to scrap sel selfishness and self seeking and do ho all all- that can be done lone to keep going the movement move move- movement ment which Is to brin bring the world back to Its feet The vast majority of ot the people In America understand this The concerted efforts that are being beIn belag be be- In lag ing ma made e to restore better conditions conditions conditions condi condi- Is the proof There will be sacrifices and hard hord- ships But where u is the man in this wide country who icho while struggling himself will not nol reach out a hand toward a neighbor who is u in a worse position titan than he S e e eIn In the Ule days days' of my youth there were men who could not afford laundry bills and ond who wore what were known as ns dickeys Dickeys were shield shaped devIces de- de vIces flees of linen or cotton which could be used use to cover er False up the trIan triangular ular Fronts space which begins begins be be- gins where the vest rest leaves off oil But they were not very tor tory They had a tendency to pull pullout pullout pullut out ut at the corners permitting the thu public lublic to view contemptuously the soiled white or whitish shirt under under- neath They saved sayed laundry bills for a awhile awhile while to be sure though sure though In most cases It was the toll of the poor wIves or mothers at home that they saved aved but they the were known through- through throughout out ut the Ule town to be poor pretenses at it respectability And as soon as ns a mans man's financial condition Improved a little he be aban- aban them and ami went had hack to the theold theold old ild hard-boiled hard standard But the dickeys dickers s supplied a leson lesson les- les lesson son on to some of the people In my old oldtown town own which more than atoned for forthe forthe the he embarrassment that they some some- sometimes times cost Their wearers discovered that sham was no good that they might better have donned the old red flannel flannel flan flan- nel shirts which were worn by the railroad boys and truck drivers than to attempt to be something that they were not S e e eThis This Is not nn an argument In defense defense defense de de- of the tile snappy dresser or of ot the boy who keeps his mother at nt atthe atthe the washboard so she can cnn save savo money to buy her offspring the evening evening eve eve- ning suit he says he must own In to order to keep up with the parade It Is merely nn an effort to impress on my r readers that while ra rags s may not be royal raiment when worn I for virtues virtue's sake it Is better to I stand for what you are Instead of ot what you would like to he be or what heaven willing you willing you mean to be when you get your our chance e e eBe Be ne what you ou are and dont don't be ashamed of oC It But nut dont don't use false fronts or pre tenses Even If It they were not found out they would v be bad bod for your OUr char char- And believe me ale they al always always al- al ways will be found round out probably I at nt some time when the discovery will embarrass you OU almost beyond your power to stand up under onder It Wear Rear a bold front always But BUl be to sure before you ou DU wear mar it that trat it i is not nota a Q false one |