Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 7 | The Piece Cut out of the Paper

" THE PIECE CUT OUT OF THE PAPER Bj DR. Will i KM E n tit 1 1 in It Is a dnngerrcis il.ing for - man to bring borne u dally paper with nu will notice tbu- . ol-timn ol-timn and thai -i: in the column Immedl- "What was r that ! you cut out ben"" I Shi asks. "Oh. tt wasn't muoh of anything Jn q little Item that canghl my eye 1 cut it out i and lef, it ,,n my desk In the office.'" That -ices n,,t u(-lefy u(-lefy her. She wants to know what tl; It. in was about. She Is nol easily satisfied That Item miist have been a partlcularlv good one. or It would n..- baxo In I BARTON '" 1 1 r."x . x ou an bardl cte an inielllRent idea of what It vva KDOU,t! Men are very stupid! There are. as J lake it. two good roe-, roe-, sons behind this Interest which we must all confess In the little square hole In I the paper where a clipping has ben ' cut out. In the first place, tho mind I demands completeness, and The bole ll j direct evidence of vacultv NatUl ill-j ill-j bors a vacuum If the pap r were complete, com-plete, we might skim over ;he page end i never notice that Item; but xve cannot : fail to see the hole. The other reason Is that we have a (right to bo interested In what manlfetlv has interested someone else. Someone must have thought that a sood Item, or he would not have gone to the trouble ..f ut t in? it out. it is a fair aasuiap- tlon that that Item was the best thin? . there was In the paper. There is In Sprlnrf leld. 111., a sinrle I file of a paper which lias been pub-, pub-, llshcd continuously In that cltv since the 1 days of Abraham Lincoln. It was orls-1 orls-1 Inallv the office file, and now It la in the State Historical library. On a cer-I cer-I 'atn pajre an item Is missing. There is reason to believe that Lincoln himself wrote that Item, for he was a CloSS friend of the editor. Mr. Francis and a frequent contributor of signed and unsigned un-signed articles In th. Journal. It Is believed, be-lieved, also, that Lincoln himself cut the article out. A treat manv j.eotdo haxe speculated about that article which xva a hort one. nnd why Lincoln was sorry ho wrote II for It Is assumed that he changed his mind and wished he had not written It I Rut no one can be quite certain ui that lies behind these opinions Is a xau:ue rumor and a hole A hole In rhe center of a newspaper l ane an be the Rmund of a good denl ..f I speeulatlon. -oo .